day three, I'm going to cheat and spoil a bit of an upcoming chapter for ridoc gamlyn's guide to tripping and falling in love!
I'm really excited for this little spin-off adventure! I have a lot of fun stuff planned for Ridoc, Ivan, and their dragons, including some Sawyer/Jesinia goodness.
I couldn't decide between two snippets, so you get both of them
Snippet 1
"Hey."
Ridoc loves Ivan's freckles.
One new piece of information that he discovers about himself is that he could stare at the mender's face for hours and still be unable to count them all… Sure, they are a quantifiable number, but Ridoc would no doubt get distracted when Ivan said something hilarious or did something cute, and be forced to start over again.
(Happily. The seventeen that line the bridge of his nose are especially alluring.)
"Hello?"
Aotrom was unfortunately correct. He does sort of want to bite them. His appreciation for Ivan's spots—as his dragon calls them—is one of the many things that Ridoc discovers about himself in the days following his epic realization. But there are more pressing matters to be concerned over… like the dark eyelash sticking to the apple of Ivan's cheek that keeps distracting his count.
"Ridoc!"
Ridoc jumps at the whisper-yell of his name and realizes that he had lost focus staring at Ivan during one of their study sessions. For the second time this week. He could have sworn he used to be cooler than this, pun completely intended.
Snippet 2
One of the problems with Ridoc realizing that he is suddenly committed to the mere idea of someone is that everyone else… well, they don't realize it.
He can't help but feel it's unfair. All of his previous and prospective romantic entanglements should have sensed the rightful shift in the universe, just like he did when it kicked his ass.
(But instead, everyone has the audacity to just continue on, uncaring of his crisis. Rude, if you ask him.)
'Your entire life is beginning to feel like a crisis,' Aotrom observes.
Ridoc winces. 'That'd be mean if it wasn't so true.'
