Just me.

"What do you mean you don't have them? You can't just not have them!"

"Well, we have them, we just send them away."

"SEND THEM AWAY? HOW? TO WHERE?"

"Settle down, it's very straightforward. When someone starts getting their period they go to the local witch or wizard or necromancer or whatever's nearby and get a spell placed on them. All the blood gets sent straight to the throne of the Blood King. Which is nice because he loves blood and isn't too picky about where it comes from. This way he's not running around starting wars for his blood. He gets it free and on a regular basis."

"But what about period cramps?"

"Oh, we send those away too. Off to the orcs of the Screaming Mountains."

"That seems like it could cause problems. Aren't you worried they'll retaliate?"

"Well, no. The orcs....kind of like it? They apparently like pain about as much as the Blood King likes blood. So as long as we keep sending the period cramps, they leave us be."

"huh, I wonder why more kingdoms haven't tried this."

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

Anthony Head (1954-2026) as Rupert Giles

clexa abo two three-shot | my ao3

Part 2

Hope dies sooner in Lexa’s heart than she would ever admit to Clarke. Her neck is adorned by Clarke’s mating mark, her finger shines with the ring of their shared matrimony and her heart beats with devotion and love for her alpha. Clarke shares with her all but love. Lexa knows of homes with so much less where still the laughter of a child is allowed to ring through out the halls. The excitement of their first shared heat and rut lasts but a brief moment, and Lexa barely basks in the glow it gives her. Six days with the door of their bedroom locked, no fabric other than the silk sheets touching Lexa’s feverish skin from the moment it closed, allowed to stare and take in Clarke’s form fully, her alphas attention solely on her, fully and undoubtedly on her.  Her alpha.  Hers.