Everything I Thought I Knew

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The sun was setting over the ocean horizon, beyond the village and the docks below her, as the day came to a close. Akkey sat on a boulder on a cliff, the same boulder where that conversation and realization with Blunt occurred many months ago, when she thought she knew how things were. Apparently not.
Her skin prickled in the bitter September wind, not bothering to regulate her own temperature while she sat in silent thought. There was a crunch of dead leaves behind her, and softly she called out without turning, “Dixie?”
moe-lazyeye
A basket of muffins dropped down next to her as the man breezed by her. He walked grandly across her field of vision as if to showcase the long coat he was wearing, and then sat on her other side as he crossed one leg. “Hello biscuit.” He clasped his hands together as he huffed an important sounding sigh. “So I figured out my cousin has acted like a bigger idiot than he usually is.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
A small smile quirked the corner of her lips as she trained her eyes towards him, red and tired in the dying sunlight but still appreciative of his usual demeanor and presentation, “I guess that’s how you would call it.” she laughed a little, huddling her knees close to her chest and leaning the side of her head on her arms. 
She sighed after a moment, “I don’t know what to do, Dixie…”
moe-lazyeye
Dixie pressed his lips together as he took note of her disarray. “I simply can’t stand to see you like this…I mean…your hair. Ah- allow me, I just- Hold on…”
He pushed himself up from the rock and stepped over behind her to swiftly undo her hair ties, and began the process of braiding and styling it. He bit the tip of his tongue in the corner of his teeth. 
“Tell me your heart biscuit…I’m rather good at all of this if you remember.”  
akkeyagentofhelheim
“Oh, I remember alright…” she replied in humour, before sighing, letting Dixie’s fingers run through her hair, still as long as it had always been, only thinner now, and darker. 
“I don’t even know how to put it into words…” her hands were clasped in front of her, “He just suddenly comes up and tells me that he loves me? After all this time? He’s with Stonegit. He chose him, not me! I made my peace with that! But instead it turns out I have this… this, chance, but I don’t even know if I still… love him like I used to! It’s not… it’s not the same. What the Hel am I supposed to say? ”
moe-lazyeye
Dixie’s tongue clicked as he thought about his own thoughts and words. Or maybe he was thinking about what direction he wanted to take the braiding in. “What to say hm? I think…that we should start with the last thing you said, and work our way backwards. So what to say…I think you’ve already said it well enough. So let’s move on. You’re not sure if you love him the same way. Such is the passage of time…but is there more?”
akkeyagentofhelheim
“More…? I…” she tilted her head, slightly pulling at the strand Dixie was working on. She paused to reexamine herself, her current situation after speaking to Fiendal, “When Blunt came to see me, I hesitated. I didn’t feel happy when he said he loved me, because I thought.. it wasn’t supposed to be for me. I thought I was meant to be with another friend, but I realized that wasn’t the case. The way I feel for that friend is not the same as how I feel for Blunt.”
“Blunt, he’s… he’s more than that, he’s family, he’s…” Akkey trailed off, “How we are to each other, that is good enough for me. I accepted that. But the thought that it could be more, that I could call him mine… it makes my chest ache. Like it wasn’t allowed to become this way…”
moe-lazyeye
“Biscuit…I tend to notice that you think you don’t deserve to have good things, or even to feel certain ways. People can be so critical of selfishness, but it’s human nature. You can be selfish without hurting people. Selfishness has also been demonized to the point that people fear to simple like what they like and want what they want.”
Dixie ran a hand over her head to smooth her hair a little as he pulled some pins and ties out from his pockets. “There is nothing wrong with the fact that you love my stupid cousin…I could tell he loved you since day one.” 
akkeyagentofhelheim
She turned her head to stare at him, “I’m–” Her face was weary, brows creased as she processed what he said. Very old words echoed in her mind. You’re so selfish, Chief. But it was something she had learned to grow past.
“But what about Stonegit? If I tell Blunt I love him, then he…”
moe-lazyeye
“Would probably win a bet. God I hope he actually laid some money on this somewhere he could make a fortune…” Dixie mused, and then shook his head. “Akkey…let’s set aside the details for a moment. Just tell me honestly, and simply…do you love Blunt, or not? And know splitting hairs. You know what I’m asking.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
She was quiet for a long time, finding her gaze slipping back to the horizon where the sun had completely disappeared and the island was cast in the night’s shadow. 
Did she? She thought of Deo, and Fiendal, how she felt for them, how different it was compared to Blunt. Her dream, meeting her other self who could call Blunt hers, and the short, dull pang of envy that she had quickly stuffed away. Every time her feelings were questioned, it was always to his face that her thoughts returned, like a magnet that pulled her in that single direction, true and straight like an arrow. 
Her throat felt dry, and she swallowed before whispering, “…I do. I always have.”
moe-lazyeye
Dixie’s hands paused for a moment, and then he continued. “You needed to say that.” He told her. “Just like Blunt needed to admit it to you.” He let his hands rest on her shoulders. “I know my cousin…He would not have done this on his own, despite how he presents himself. Which means scruffy is likely behind his sudden confession…but I’m guessing you already knew that.” 
He walked around to stand in front of her again. “Biscuit…I think this matter is far from clean cut, and far from uncomplicated. So here’s another question.” Dixie lowered the finger he had momentarily raised and leaned down to look intently into her gaze. “Ignorance is bliss…but do you love him enough that you’re willing to find out?”
akkeyagentofhelheim
“I…” she blinked, the familiar gaze piercing into hers, her lips pressed together and her brow furrowed, “I think I do…”
moe-lazyeye
“Hm…” Dixie reached over and patted the back of her hand a few times. “Well good. I think it may be time you talk to scruffy in that case. I imagine going to the source like that will get you to the root of the matter.” 
akkeyagentofhelheim
“Okay…” Akkey nodded slowly, before sighing, a tired grin sneaking its way on her face, “You really are rather good at this.”
moe-lazyeye
Dixie placed his hands on his chest and then brushed at one of his long earrings as if flipping a length of hair. “Oh…I know…it’s a talent really. Style, baking, advice, I really am quite the talented individual.”
He bent down to kiss the top of her head once as he patted her shoulders. “Now biscuit, I adore you and you know I do, but you really must get dressed in something more fitting for your hair right now before you head over. The braiding is exquisite but the outfit could use an update.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
“Okay, okay. I will.” she waved his hands away, now laughing at little more outright, looser in her shoulders and somewhat clearer in the head.