So it turned out that Hythlodaeus, Hades, and Dirk had all been very busy all day, using their godlike powers to rebuild the city of Amaurot in the ocean outside Goldenrod--because why the fuck not? It's the weird fucking weekend. Go wild.
And then Hythlo had decided to smuggle Steven and Charley in to see it by hiding them in the hood of his robe and then dressing them up as two little Amaurotine kids... which seemed to consist of giving them human-sized robes and masks and letting the specters that haunt the city make their own inferences.
Steven recognized the place right away, of course. How could he not, when he'd seen Hades' dreams of the city being destroyed?
That had seemed so very long ago.
He was glad they were rebuilding it, if only for the weekend. It really was beautiful. The kind of city he'd be happy to live in someday. Even Charley agreed and she was much less of an intrinsically urban person as Steven was.
Hythlo had said they should stay the night, that they could sleep with him in his dormitory room--there'd be plenty of sleeping space for them due to their smaller size. And there had been, more or less.
And that was-- good, actually. Because it gave Steven the chance to do something that he'd been thinking about doing ever since he'd realized from talking to Hythlo about his Grindr adventures that he, himself, was... not unattracted to Hythlodaeus.
Of course, this was nothing he'd planned to do in the flesh. Not without Hythlo propositioning Jack for a threesome or some kind of fun voyuerism thing where Hythlo would watch the two of them fuck in front of him. Steven knew how jealous Jack was.
Steven was also kind of tired of a lot of Jack's shit. And yes, fine, this was mostly because of the whole Angel thing knocking Jack off his pedestal and maybe also because he still was quietly bitter about the whole rejecting Dia thing... but honestly, he'd be lying to himself if he hadn't sometimes fantasized about using oneiromancy to have dream sex with people who he was terribly attracted to, but wasn't dating.
And now he and Hythlo were sleeping in the same room. It was perfect. And so very, very easy to step from his own dream into Hythlodaeus'.
Also Day One of the Fourth Wall: Dreamwalking for NSFW Ends
And then Hythlo had decided to smuggle Steven and Charley in to see it by hiding them in the hood of his robe and then dressing them up as two little Amaurotine kids... which seemed to consist of giving them human-sized robes and masks and letting the specters that haunt the city make their own inferences.
Steven recognized the place right away, of course. How could he not, when he'd seen Hades' dreams of the city being destroyed?
That had seemed so very long ago.
He was glad they were rebuilding it, if only for the weekend. It really was beautiful. The kind of city he'd be happy to live in someday. Even Charley agreed and she was much less of an intrinsically urban person as Steven was.
Hythlo had said they should stay the night, that they could sleep with him in his dormitory room--there'd be plenty of sleeping space for them due to their smaller size. And there had been, more or less.
And that was-- good, actually. Because it gave Steven the chance to do something that he'd been thinking about doing ever since he'd realized from talking to Hythlo about his Grindr adventures that he, himself, was... not unattracted to Hythlodaeus.
Of course, this was nothing he'd planned to do in the flesh. Not without Hythlo propositioning Jack for a threesome or some kind of fun voyuerism thing where Hythlo would watch the two of them fuck in front of him. Steven knew how jealous Jack was.
Steven was also kind of tired of a lot of Jack's shit. And yes, fine, this was mostly because of the whole Angel thing knocking Jack off his pedestal and maybe also because he still was quietly bitter about the whole rejecting Dia thing... but honestly, he'd be lying to himself if he hadn't sometimes fantasized about using oneiromancy to have dream sex with people who he was terribly attracted to, but wasn't dating.
And now he and Hythlo were sleeping in the same room. It was perfect. And so very, very easy to step from his own dream into Hythlodaeus'.