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    “Archons preserve my patience,” Tighnari groans, massaging his temples.

    “You split your household chores. You bring him his lunch at the Akademiya daily. Alhaitham looks after you when he thinks you’re sick. You two have weekly dinner dates. Kaveh, you do realize that with the list you’ve given me you’re both just a signed document short of being legally-wedded spouses, right?”

    “Perhaps Kaveh’s just ‘twisted up’ after they’ve unknowingly ‘tied the knot’.” Cyno muses thoughtfully.

    Silence.

    “... Did you get it? Because they’re practically married? And Kaveh’s—”

    “Cyno, qamari, I adore you, but finish that statement and you will find yourself exiled from my bed for the next month.”

    Cyno wisely snaps his mouth shut.

    (Or, after the Interdarshan Championship, Kaveh finds that his living situation with Alhaitham has become… peaceful, more or less?

    But why? Nothing’s changed between him and his stoic junior. He simply prepares Alhaitham’s meals, sees him off to the Akademiya, takes care of their home, arranges his schedule so he doesn’t miss their weekly dinners at Lambad’s—

    But that’s completely normal roommate behavior.

    … Right?)

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    “Fuck,” Kaveh breathes.

    “What? What happened?” Nilou turns—peeking over his shoulder and letting out a small “oh” before gently patting his back.

    “What’s wrong?” Dehya asks. Kaveh wordlessly hands her his phone and drops his head in his hands.

    “I’m never playing truth or dare again.”

    “Well, I mean. It’s not that bad,” he hears Dehya say, unsure. “You mentioned you were drunk. You’ve done plenty of dumb shit while drunk. You took this dare while drunk.”

    “Most of that dumb shit, Al-Haitham witnessed with his own eyes too,” Tighnari adds.

    Kaveh glares at Tighnari. Tighnari smiles and shrugs.

    (Kaveh confesses. Sort of.)

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    “You're mentioned in the ‘Funding’ segment.”

    “For citation?”

    “For in-person guidance and aid.”

    Kaveh snorts. “I haven't agreed to any aid this year; I'm not teaching.”

    “No, but Payam seems quite sure you'd enjoy his thesis topic and humbly requests your expertise in the situation.” A divot appears in between Kaveh's eyebrows as he purses his lips.

     

    An odd research submission begins paving the way to a dangerous inclination bordering on obsession. In a wholly illogical sense, the lingering obsession focuses on his roommate.

    A visceral string of events begins, with a temple devoted to the deceased Goddess of Flowers being the epicenter.

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    "Alhaitham?"

    The cat only stared back at him, as if he hadn’t just spelt out the name of Kaveh’s roommate on the floor.

    Kaveh was being goaded.

    He grabbed the cat (Alhaitham, but he couldn’t fully register this, so he wouldn’t for now). “This is no time to be difficult! You’re a cat! We have to get you help!”

    But the cat deplored this notion. He clung to the floor, or attempted to, claws drawn out and scratching with particular vehemence. “Hey!” Kaveh held him up, his body hanging low and limbs tensing. “This is your floor, you know!”

    And then he processed what had just happened. “Hold on – you don’t want to get help?” The cat’s body became lax, and he stared back at Kaveh was disinterest. Kaveh resisted the urge to shake him. “This is ridiculous! I’m not arguing with a cat! I don’t care if you just so happen to be Alhaitham. I’m getting you help whether you like it or not.”

    (Upon inadvertently transforming Alhaitham from a cat back to a human by somehow fulfilling an unknown desire, Kaveh is confronted with the question he’s tried to smother for years – why did Alhaitham allow him to stay? Why was Kaveh here?)

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    In the world of steel cities and technological pursuits, a young man reads a book about a dancer who calls forth rain and the sage of the desert who loves her.

    In the world of divinity and golden sand, the young man remembers his previous life, and he realizes that he has become a villain.

    Under his new name, Kaveh decides that he will give Nilou and Al-Haitham, the main characters of the book, a happy ending, even if the cost is his own.

    — Or, Kaveh is reborn as the villain in an Alhaitham/Nilou and accidentally makes it an Alhaitham/Kaveh even though he just wanted to make his two favorite main characters happy

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