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Set October through to December

Moving things swiftly along, I don't want to drag anything out. Thanks for your support with the last chapter though <3 Those decisions are always tough, even when I did make a few last minute changes.

Sort but sweet chapter this time, wanting to focus a little on normalcy and the acceptance of Noctis towards Lara. Prompto still doesn't know, even though he and Noct are best friends, Noct has been true to his word and not told anyone.

 The Choco/Mog festival - Noctis shakes his hesitantly because he sort of does know it but only briefly. He dreamt about it when he was a kid and Carbuncle was helping him through his recovery. He would dream about an older him enjoying the festival alone.

Also, did I just officially announce who Lara is related to? :D lol Also a bit about her backstory?

Set October 7th

I have a funny feeling this is going to be a long chapter, but I'm loathed to split it into two and make you guys wait because I'm going to making you wait anyway so there's no point making you wait again…

Edit: 9,000 words!!! 9,000 words!!! I'm am so sorry!!!!  I have no idea where I got 9,000 words from. When I tried to split the chapter into two and got 4,000 and 2,000 I was confused. Until I re-counted and it came up with 6,000, much more reasonable lol.

It's the moment you've all been waiting for, Lara and Gladio meet!!! *squeals of excitement* in other news it's really hard to not use the word 'before' he did something before he didn't something else. In the first section alone I had to stop using it before it got too much lol

I need to give thanks to this chapter to ImmortalMarshal over on FF.Net, the review they left me seriously helped in giving this story a bit more to it. Basically right from the start, I knew I wanted Gladio to find out this way, and I knew he wasn't going to be happy about it. But why wasn't he happy about it, the review I got sort of fitting things into perspective, it allowed the puzzle pieces to slot together. The conversation with Cor totally added. It was only going to be Gladio who found out, but by telling Cor it allows the story to take a different turn of events (I'm really struggling not to give away spoilers here as I left the chapter on such a cliff-hanger).

Ignis is feeling rather dejected right now, he's human mistakes happen and this kind of proves it. Everyone makes mistakes, even about love. It wouldn't be a very exciting story if everything was hunky-dory now would it (despite how much I want to write a happy story where nothing goes wrong). We need a little angst in our lives, we need the suffering because, in the end, it will make everyone better. (I mean that's my theory lol).

Writing in Gladio's POV again, it's fun, it’s also practice lol. Didn't actually much of his personality come out though, he's very conflicted though bless him.

Quick note, but I'm really pleased with how this chapter went. Next chapter will be Cor's decision and the aftermath of what is to come and then, unfortunately, nothing really exciting happens until Noct's nineteenth so in 9 months time. That's the next big event that I have planned. There are loads of mini ones though, that aren't as well planned as that one lol.

There are four big events in this story. This is one of them. Noct's 19th is another, Christmas of that same year is another, Lara's 20th is a big one as well, then it's in the game territory. A mini one in April the year the game starts and then the game itself - okay so that's more than four that’s 5.5. And they're all really spread out, I would apologise but I've done it for a reason. It's to give other events a meaningful impact. It wouldn't be very exciting to me if they dated then a month later Gladio found out, it would have the same effect. *shrugs* what do you think. Am I dragging this on for too long? I suppose you won't really have an opinion without seeing my timeline lol.

I suppose I better start explaining her last name. You'll notice throughout I've been consistently Sagittaclaustra, however the last chapter when Lara said it, it became Sagitta Claustra. Not a mistake, something that will be revealed in the big event of Lara's 20th. In later chapters, it will affectionately become S.C as fellow recruits and officers get bored and tongue-tied saying her long name lol.

Alright then, hopefully, some frustrations will be at rest (some haha) Gladio knows, Cor knows!! Big decisions coming up what will happen, only time (and I) will tell mwahaha!

Have a great Hogmanay everyone. (New Year). See you next year!

Chapter set Sept September 19th - 20th

*Peeps up from behind sofa* Still here? Oh good, I love you guys <3

So Ignis buys Lara a dress, thinks about the future and contemplates getting her a key cut for his apartment. He also almost tells Gladio but I'm apparently really mean and stubborn and have their meeting already planned out and just need some dramatic tension and frustration for you all. All being well next chapter, promise :D

Hey look at me (I may have missed a week - so sorry please forgive me) but it's a Thursday :D I mean somewhere in the world it's Thursday, it's technically Friday for me lol. (Edit: I had all intense and purposes of posting this last night, then I got introduced to the wonderful world of Role Play and I sort of got distracted....)

Everything with regards to the oath and attestations I found on Wikipedia and various websites. It's all British Army and Royal Air Force based with the oath (I have had that oath written for so long I forgot where I found it, but I think it's a combination of a UK Police Force Oath and an Oath of allegiance to the Queen). Edit: Never mind found it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Allegiance_(United_Kingdom)#Armed_forces

The length of training has been elongated, it doesn't usually take 18 months to train to be in the army (if I recall), however, I figure they have so much to learn. Harnessing the powers of the crystal (it has to take some degree of training to pull things out of thin air.)

*Has visions of Cor pulling out bananas and pink flamingos when he was starting out*

*coughs* anyway, enough about Cor brandishing pink flamingos at an amused Clarus and back to my headcanons. They would have to learn how to summon weapons, use elemancy, general fighting. Lara has to become a qualified paramedic (or at least an Emergency Medical Technician - which will include some classes at CCU :D) I also expect them all to have to learn how to drive. (taught usually by Ignis ;) )

Hence why it takes them 18 months at the end of the training there's another ceremony (called a passing out parade) which symbolises their graduation from recruit to crownsguard official - Here they get their official fatigues and get added into the rotations (or in a Kingsglaive sense - deployments beyond the wall). Speaking of Kingsglaive, same oath (slightly different wording), different training (warping, extra magic etc.), different training grounds (more open) and different barracks. Very unlikely that Glaive and Guard cross paths.

The line in the oath that adds His Heirs and Successors means that when the king dies their oath automatically (automagically) transfers to Noctis, which is why Cor and the Glaive can still summon weapons and use magic and what-not because Noct is still alive - the Crystal is still alive (despite being in a different country).

Think that’s it - to be perfectly honest I didn’t like this chapter and it’s an important chapter but I don’t know it didn’t flow for me I’m sorry.

Set June - August 30th

I have literally been struggling with words today. Pronouncing and spelling. Thank goodness for spell-checking.

So we're moving swiftly along with things. Another filler chapter here, outliner the passing of time, various frustrating aspects about Ignis - like why won't he just tell the world dammit!? All in good time my friends lol. It's the good ol' watching a train wreck trope, you know it's coming but there's nothing you can do to stop it (because I'm the author lol).

Gladnis week happened, I've literally been reading non-stop this week, so much great stuff out there. I kind of want to do something for Ignis Fluff week, but… nothing is jumping out at me from the prompts. Maybe next weeks chapter will be extra fluffy lol

Okay on to this chapter.  A little bit about my HC for the Crownsguard:

Applications are literally all year, but they only start training in September. If they only got 10 applications before they opened it up to non-Citadel born folk then they were really desperate lol.

Cor is Marshall of the Crownsguard - literally in command, however, answers to Clarus, who is the voice of the crownsguard on the council. That and he's the shield, but he tends to defer everything to Cor. They work well together. Gladio, as a shield to the future king, has to learn how to do his dad's job. He takes an active roll in training recruits and helping out Cor so he can learn that side of things.

Regis, Clarus, Cor and Gaius are life goals. Their friendly banter and teasing (especially between Clarus, Cor and Regis) are exactly what Noctis strives to have with his friends.

Prompto is literally on his best behaviour for this party as he wants to be invited back. Regis seems impressed with him at any rate.

Clarus just finds it absolutely hilarious that every "souvenir" Cor has rescued has returned back. He affectionately calls Lara and Prompto as Cor's boomerangs. "They just keep coming back to you, no matter how hard you throw them."

I am planning to write a side story to this over in Staying Hopeful, with regards to Cor and Lara meeting again for the first time in seven years. So I'm sure I'll throw in some good old-fashioned Cor ribbing over there. So stay tuned for that.

Link for Staying hopeful is here - just in case you hadn't read it yet. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12350325

Set June 13th - 18th

Okay, sorry for it being late. Things got crazy, next weeks is probably going to be late as well. Work is fun :D Rehearsals all week, late nights too, spent at a local high school so there was a lot of funny looks as we walked through the school and stole the cool kid's tables :D Production week for the next two weeks, so hopefully will have more time to write.

It's also Gladnis week next week! Yay - I have had a couple of fics written for this occasion so I'm excited to showcase them.

As for this fic. Noctis!! I had the urge to write the meeting from Noctis' point of view because I wanted to showcase what kind of leader I envision him. One who is pretty down to earth and cool in order to make those he's meeting with feeling comfortable. Ignis' doesn’t think it's a good idea but hey it worked.

And OMG did Lara almost say I love you? Who knows ha-ha only time will tell.

A quick note just likes how quick the story was, but we're getting into the thick of things now. Paving the way for the meat of the story to happen.

Oooh, education maintenance allowance is a real thing!! It's called EMA and you can get anywhere between £10 - £30 a month for students aged between 16 and 19. I just tweaked it slightly for the purpose of this story, but the inspiration is there. I loved it when I was eligible for it, it helped so much!

The names of the five refugees… Caleb Carpenter - makes furniture. Raven Preacher is a teacher, Petra Khara, It was supposed to be Petar but autocorrect changed it and I liked it, I don't have any reason for that one only that I wanted someone related to an actual FFXV character lol, plus Pelna's the best (not as good as Libertus, ever since watching Liam his VA and MoCap at the ATR live stream has increased my love for his character). Larissa is Lara - cute that she's sitting opposite Ignis. Noctis didn't notice it as he was too busy, but before she spoke her eyes would flick towards Ignis as if asking his permission. She also didn't realise that the crownsguard standing at the door, was the very shield and best friend of Ignis. Ted Shree… I was listening to Ed Sheeran at the time… enough said haha. The scribe is called Papirus because scribes wrote on papyrus… I'm so creative haha.

Speaking of Gladio, I figured he would be there as that's his job. In that dark Crownsguard, you see him wearing in brotherhood. He also didn't realise that Larissa is actual Ignis' Lara. That comes later - in October :D

Huh, I say it's short but when I pasted it all into A03 it's actually 3000 + words long, the length of an average chapter. :)

Set 1st June (one week after Chapter 14).

Not finished Comrades yet, working on it though - hopefully will finish it before Episode Ignis comes out ha-ha.

I start working on Monday and so I don't know how having a normal life will coincide with chapters, so please bear with me if I'm slow to update.

The first section of this chapter was written before I had even finished Chapter 14. It was rough notes but nothing got cut so I consider that a plus. Not much to say about it other than Noctis can think like a king when he wants to and Ignis makes a convincing argument even when he hasn’t had any time to prepare :D

I woke up this morning and it had snowed!! First snow of the season and it's actually early. We don't usually see snow until January, February, so it was quite exciting. Not enough to close the schools (takes a lot to close the schools up here) but a couple of inches. It's raining now though so I doubt it will stay until the weekend.

For our cat, this is her first snowfall whilst living with us. We gave her a forever home in March when we brought her home from the shelter. We opened the back door for her and she just looked at us as if to say "Why are you sending me out there you crazy people?" She licked some snow that was on the slope (our house as slopes instead of steps because my dad uses a wheelchair) and then came back inside. Not impressed ha-ha.

What else has happened in my life? Playing Ultra Sun, picking up my new car on Saturday, Playing Comrades, Writing more Gladnis, I have four started projects but nothing posted yet (one is for Gladnis week so that's excused). Send help hehe.

Set in May (directly after Chapter 13).

May I introduce Lara! (This is the reason the chapter is a day late, I really wanted to post a picture of Lara but due to PS4 issues it wasn’t working :(  

Woo OMG Comrades! *breathes* I played it for a bit the day of release, then my plans changed for the next day so I tried to play it pretty much all day. So many head cannons and feels! Like it just fits with everything I’ve already planned with this universe I’ve created and dycgiwvlchuoqg;.;…

Okay, I’m calm. Apologies for that…

Okay - Chapter 14. I suppose I should start by saying sorry!!! But the story is called Of Secrets, Lies and Coffee for a reason, and yes sometimes I kick myself for spanning it out, but I literally have every reveal planned out, the reactions the thoughts the way it all goes and tonight just wasn’t one of those nights for a reveal. It does, however, start to pave the way for other things though. Let’s just say that Gaius is really taken with Lara :D

I love Italian dining! All inspiration is taken from another Disney restaurant - this time the Italian fine dining of Palo - I certainly made me hungry writing this chapter.

Don’t you just hate having a goal in sight and not knowing how to get there? In life, in fiction, all is a work of poor planning right?

I’m sitting here writing, re-installing FFXV - remember how I said it was playing up. So yeah, had to uninstall everything, reinstall everything and I’m 3.5 hours in and finally, updates are almost completed… nope never mind - 6 hours in and I finally played. Did a couple of missions managed to even get online with a discord friend - so yeah. Hopefully tomorrow?

Set April - May (I'm bouncing all over the place I'm so sorry!)

What a week! On Friday my car started making funny noises and upon closer inspection, the exhaust looked to be hanging lower than usual. It was booked in for an MOT on Tuesday (a yearly test that all cars over the age of three have to take to test their road safety and emissions and stuff) it failed. Big time. Like I've been driving through a death trap for Bahamut knows how long. So the garage kept it.

I have no excuse for the lateness of this chapter - I really struggled to write it, to be honest :( Exciting things happen in May which sort of sets the ball rolling so just sort of filling the time setting the stage and elongating Ignis idiocy. But then I decided that I could combine all the filler with the big (ish) reveal and have a cliff-hanger! Dun dun duuurrrr….

Fun fact! Touellia - the restaurant in which Ignis and his uncle go to is the restaurant in Altissia that is just up from the Secretary Estate. It's in a courtyard and has blue fencing around it - you can't eat there, but rotating the camera gives you the name and the specials board in the podium lists Tartine al Caviale. :D

I can tell you I spent a lot of time in Altissia gathering information for future chapters - at first I hated how maze like it was and now I actually know my way around places (would be easier if warping was a permanent fixture like it was for Choco/Mog festival but I'll live lol.)

Actually, my excuse for getting this out late solely rests upon Prompto who (along with his puppy Pryna) started up a vet clinic. Whilst treating also sort of NPC, in walked Noctis with his cat Ardyn Izunia. Well, they fell madly in love and moved in together where they adopted a puppy named Umbra and daughter called LunaFreya… Yes, I was severely distracted by the Sims 4: Cats & Dogs.

I also got distracted by the PS4 and the Comrades trophies…. And the update, so excited for this when it comes out. I won't be playing multiplayer but you can bet I'll be doing the solo player campaign (as I don't own PS+).

Then I got distracted by trying to play the update and my PS4 crashing so now I have to fix it by uninstalling FFXV and doing a clean install as my data may be corrupted. *Cries in the corner and mourns her data loss*

This has nothing to do with OSLC but as I was planning out the Dar!Cor fic I want to do I realised that Year 736 (the year Prompto was taken by a "Lucian") was a leap year lol.

Set Feb 16th through to March 23rd.

* Breaths* Episode Ignis trailer… wow, er yeah I totally recommend you watch it - gods I was a wreck for a good while after it. So much speculation!

As for how it ties in with this? Not a clue ha-ha - I mean the worst is that Ignis turns out to be Noctis' cousin on his mother side (Ignis' mom is Noct's mom sister) but that's minor compared to other things. I don't foresee any problems and if there is that's what artistic liberties are for right? Lol

I wasn't happy with this chapter - It's short and Ignis is just so darn cute indecisive. He's not quite sure what he wants bless, now that Lara's graduated she's going to be a bit more amenable to everything, she's not a school girl anymore and yeah she's coping with the fact she had to give up her dream, but she's still going to try even if it does mean heading (back) to Accordo and applying their. If Ignis is willing they could try long distance and all that, so she's a little bit down but she's tough, she'll bounce back soon and I'm not that mean lol.

He-he Grammarly want's to correct Cleigne to Celine… Looks like everyone's heart will go on in Cleigne… okay that was terrible sorry XD

The graduation speech - I never graduated high school - I mean I left just before my last year because I couldn't take the classes I wanted due to small class sizes so I went to college instead - which also didn't have graduations… Scotland is weird. You graduate when you get a degree... But I don't have a degree… so I made up something and hoped it was inspiring lol

Set February 15th M.E 753.

Ooh, cliffhanger! I don't think I've done that yet. I can't make things too easy for Lara now can I? But don't worry, things look up - soonish :D

Valentine's Day got added in as an afterthought, due to work commitments, school and the fact that they're still pretty secretive about their relationship they didn't spend Valentine's day together :(  Gladio gave Ignis some stick for that, tried to force him to take the evening off, but even if he had, Lara had to work so it wouldn't have worked out anyway.

Valentine's day in Japan is really cool, the females give chocolates (that they've more often than not made themselves) so the fact that Lara made the chocolates is a testament to how much Ignis means to her, they're also pretty good and he's not just saying that because they're dating. (She used the home economics kitchen in school to make them lol). The males don't give gifts until March - so you can imagine the chocolates that Ignis will make for her <3

This chapter was originally supposed to cover Lara's birthday and her graduation, but when I didn't add the exam results into last chapter things got pushed around a bit. Plus something this big needed it's own chapter.

Passing Out Parades - is a thing in the military it symbolises the graduation of their first part of basic training which then allows them to move on to specialised training. It usually takes a couple of weeks, I'm tweaking it slightly in the sense it takes just about 16 months and they do all sorts of training within that time. Crownsguard (and Kingsglaive) is very specialised and takes a lot of training lol. We see a lot more of my headcanon for the Lucian guards and glaives in future chapters and I'm still developing it so stay tuned for that.

I forgot to mention that the Enchanted Garden - may or may not have been taking from the restaurant of the same name in various Disney locations - most notably for me the Disney Dream and the Disney Fantasy Cruise Liners. I'm not ashamed of that lol.

I had a huge bit of cute dialogue planned between Ignis and Lara of them walking through a park hand in hand, Ignis reassuring Lara about the exam results. It had all come to me when I had gone out for a walk (alone because - well I am alone lol). I remember the walk and I remember the looks some people were giving me as I muttered the dialogue out loud or smiled to myself. Can I remember the actual dialogue? Nope. Curses.

Trying to work out how many people applied for CCU made my head spin lol. In my head, there are 4 public schools (North, South, East and West), two Private Schools (North and South). Prompto and Noctis go to West District High, Lara East District and Gladio (and Iris) went/go to North District Preparatory (posh Private school lol

So with this in mind and working on the principle that there would be at least three of each class and 20 students per class puts that at least 360 students applying for CCU (that's assuming everyone is applying for university) this doesn't include mature students and students from outside Insomnia. This doesn't also include students applying for specialized schools (like Lara). So let's round it up to about 500. Let’s say that 120 of them are applying for Medical School. 3% will be accepted with a scholarship and 20% will be accepted given the class size at 24.

So, Lara, had a 1/5 chance of being accepted into Medical School - Woo go Lara!!

This then went out the window - despite my amazing maths skills when we realised that that was too little and we made Insomnia seem like a small city and not a large metropolitan city like the London, Paris, Tokyo it's based on lol - there should at least be more schools ><

So yeah definitely made my head spin - especially because a. I never really had the whole applying to college/university experience and b. I live in a small town where we wake up to find sheep on the front lawn and deer in the back.

That right there is the main reason for the delay of this chapter - that and I got distracted by the Gladnis fic I'm writing and the Dad!Cor I have planned in the works… I should really get a job lol.

Just a small note to say this chapter will be late. Went Car shopping this morning, babysitting this after then drama rehearsals in the evening. I’ll strive to get up before it turns into Friday but I can’t promise anything - sorry :( If not it will definitely be up tomorrow.

This will get edited with my actual Author Note when posted :D

Edit: Posted!! Woo sorry for the delay, but it’s here now :D

Set - December 22nd through to February 8th.

Busy week this week so sorry for the delay. In other news, I got a job yay! It doesn't start untill November and it's only for three weeks but it's something at least. Performing in a play around schools in my district - so a paid acting job. Only one of my childhood dreams :D

Anyway, you didn't come here to listen to me talk about me (if you did then yay I'm honoured) but let's talk about chapter 10. Wow 10 chapters in, that's (maybe) a third of what I have planned. Ignis and Lara are of course getting more comfortable with each other. Exam season is almost over, so things can start to be a little bit better for them… maybe only time (and myself) know what the future has in store *evil laugh*

So Lara dropped that her grandmother's friend is a guy called Wes… who owns a bar, that has lasagne on the menu… things are getting placed together don't you think? But no big reveal yet.

Prompto finally shows up!! Okay so he was in Chapter 2 briefly but I didn't really get to explore that much, just kind of bashed him around a little bit with the whole microwave incident. He is going to get his own P.O.V in a couple of chapters (Chapter 27 if my plan goes according to plan) that's a definite but it's not for a while yet. He might get more, but he's not really a major factor in the Ignis/Lara world I've created.

I was daydreaming - which isn't new and… well, I suppose I better start by saying I'm a closeted Dad!Cor fan, which you'll see and I was thinking of ways to show this in my own way. There's plenty out there that are really good but my backstory to OSLC has hints of it in and before long I had come up with a couple of conversations between Clarus, Cor and Regis and they're all centred around souvenirs. Thus the name of that portion of my notes came to be. (up until now it was just Episode Cor lol).

Then, of course, the idea to combine stories and have a side quest that sort of goes back in time to explain a little bit more about Lara and where she came from and her history.

So this isn't going to be updated as regularly as OSLC, just as and when it requires it.

This first chapter is just brief drabbles about Cor - the alludes to a one-sided relationship with an OC and a sort of comradery between, him Regis and Clarus.

I had it written out ages ago to post as a stand-alone fic, but then I realised it fits as a prelude/taster to Lara's portion of the universe I've created.

The chapter is set December 20th - December 21st.

At first, when writing this chapter I had no idea how to make it a suitable length, then I just started writing and all sorts of nonsense came out. Like Prompto being from Niflheim, it makes sense they know they just don't know what he is. Then a conversation with Ignis' Uncle, which hopefully explains some of the Angst and frustration about the secrets and the lies that are going on. I mean jeez, uncle isn't very supportive is he? Duty this, the duty that…

I suppose the biggest reveal was of course Cor. Cor Leonis strikes again. I'm a big fan of Papa!Cor, it just fits you know and I really hope they make it canon soon. I had originally planned for this reveal to be a little bit down the line, but it came out here and I'm happy with that. I can still work something else in later, maybe more back story but for now, you know how Lara got to Insomnia. Maybe not who she is, but where she's going.

On that note, I've started a companion series - this is going to be extra bits that don't make it into this, Lara's POV for example or little bits of history that don't have anything to do with Lara. This won't be updated as regularly, only when there is something that needs explaining further.

So it's still Wednesday in some places so it still works. If there is a chapter on my companion piece that ties in with this then this will be posted on a Wednesday. If there is nothing it will remain on it's Thursday upload. My newest fic A sense of betrayal will be posted on Mondays.

Oh, I have a present for you all; This is a screenshot of the inside of Ignis' apartment Sims 4 style! It helped in the sense that I could visualise what was happening so I could write it lol.

I started writing this immediately after writing the final line of Chapter 7. Waiting for my beta to finish lunch so we can edit 7 and post it. Also still waiting for Update 1.16 to update. So here we are writing chapter 8.

Takes place November 7th - start of December

I finally sat down and worked out a plan of when I want major events to happen, and combined months together. Once our happy couple starts getting into the swing of things I'll be time skipping through the months. Nothing too distracting I just didn't want to bore you all with more fillers. Things start picking up when Lara Graduates, that's when the bulk of this story happens. At the moment we're looking at 38 chapters ;)

I've also decided (because this is my Head Canon mwahaha) that Eos celebrates the Solstice and Equinoxes. Maybe it's symbolic, the longest night (I think I read that in a fic once) for example when the whole game features the nights getting shorter *shrugs*

The chapters are getting shorter as well (no this is not symbolism ha-ha) I just felt like I didn't want to bore you with filler fluff. Things are going to start picking up soon and so maybe I'm lulling you into a false sense of security.

I lied, I didn't call Ignis' Uncle, Stupeo - it just didn't sound right lol. Gaius, however, is named after Gaius Cilnius Maecenas who was a Political Advisor and friend to the first Roman emperor - fitting don't you think? Especially when I think that Gaius might have had the same relationship with Regis as Ignis does with Noct. The reason he didn't go on the mission 30 years ago is that Weskham - a steward, was going with them. What Regis needed on his journey was a sword and not another pen. In Lucis, King Mors needed a pen - his advisor (Gaius' Aunt) had passed away and so Cor (Bodyguard extraordinaire to Mors) went to protect Regis and Gaius took up his aunts' mantle as an advisor, at least while Regis was out of town. I love headcanons and backstories :D

This chapter spans a whole month :D I loved writing about the different holiday festivals and traditions - I'm tempted to turn it into a fluffy one-shot. Maybe to celebrate that actual time of the year in RL lol :D