End Notes

Qifrey, post silverwood, suddenly reverting back to his pre-everything crush on Olly when he was 13. He’s been able to avoid the rush of nerves and anticipation interacting with Olly for 20 years because he *knew* nothing could really happen because of the tree. Without it, his filters for processing every close moment with Olly have disappeared.

Suddenly, Olly taking his hand to pull him up from the ground in the garden is making him blush. Qifrey is now incredibly aware every time Olly touches his back in the kitchen to let him know he’s there. He stammers when Olly catches him staring and asks if there’s something on his face. He finds himself dodging eye contact throughout the day as if he’s hiding from those deep blue eyes. He feels totally ridiculous for it.

And Olly? He’s noticing and he’s LIVING for it. Suddenly, it’s incredibly apparent that Qifrey finds him attractive. The stuttering and blushing and the way Qifrey turns into a flustered mess are going to his head in the best way. And he also finds all of it incredibly endearing (if maybe a little sad when he realizes why it’s happening now). There’s a certain pride with turning Qifrey, who has put on a charming and suave public persona for years, into a bit of an embarrassed wreck just by being around.

Olly starts flirting with more purpose just to see more of those reactions and they *work* but they also come with an unexpected result. Qifrey, after being forced to keep so many secrets, is way more honest about things than he used to be. Qifrey responds to Olly’s flirting with flustered but sincere comments appreciating Olly’s skills and talents and abilities or by telling Olly how much he means to him. Which makes OLLY the flustered mess.

ch. 89: "in exchange, i've brought our brightest young witch along with me..."

Qifrey is saved from the curse, but he is a very confused man right now. I was thinking how he would act if he just woke up from a coma! At first I wanted to also make a scene where other witches didnt help Qifrey at all... But I decided it was best to focus on Beldaruit and him instead.

High on drugs Qifrey is quite funny. random scenes:

This takes place around ch. 47, but there's no spoilers. The context for the cosmetic mask from that same chapter will probably improve the vieweing experience tho.

If you pay close attention, you notice that they're opposites in basically everything. Water vs fire magic, messy white hair vs straight black hair, tight fitting vs loose shirt, turtleneck vs low collared, black vs white skirts (ok. smoke colored skirts.), oversized boots vs slippers, and the list goes on.

The only thing they seem to share is their love for ugly ahh socks and for each other

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