An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
“Before I came to—here, I used to see people eat desserts like this at tea parties all the time. But I could never have any of them. So I suppose now that I’m able to buy and eat my own, I can’t help but do so every opportunity I get.”
“You kept witnessing tea parties you weren’t invited to?” Niles's eyebrows raised.
A beat. Then he heard the sound of Selena plopping onto the grass next to him.
“Does it still bother you?” she asked wearily. “The dark?”
First chapter can be either implied Niles/Odin or just two friends chatting and talking. Second chapter is a platonic Laslow & Selena talking about the past.