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feroluce · 6 months
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Melusine hands make it difficult to write, which is why they all use stickers to mark their items. Despite having human-like hands and fingers, Sigewinne is still very much a Melusine, and she participates in this culture. She puts stickers all over Wriothesley and his gauntlets because that is hers.
Wriothesley doesn't learn this until after he and Sigewinne are together, but he's doing the mental math and he's pretty sure she was stickering him even before they started dating. He tries to bring it up subtly, like oh, so I overheard- or someone mentioned to me the other day that- because. Surely there must be some other meaning behind the stickers, other than just declaring ownership of belongings. Surely that doesn't count for people? You wouldn't mark a person as your property. Right?
And Wriothesley has his back to Sigewinne as he says this. But he turns to face her, and she's smiling at him just as sweet as ever, but her eyes are just a little different, in a way that has nothing to do with appearance. Looking in them feels the same as the first time Wriothesley descended into the depths and then looked out at the bottom of the sea. All the breadth and oppressive weight of an entire ocean, and miles and miles of unfathomable dark and all the things that hide within it.
Sigewinne smiles and tells him no, he understood it correctly. The stickers are how they mark belongings. There is no other interpretation and no deeper meaning. Sigewinne has staked her claim. Wriothesley is hers.
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