LINKDING

Summary: Richard Merrill has a conversation with his mother. ➜ yuletide fic - for Mairelon the Magician ➜ set mid-canon, a conversation between Mairelon and his mother about the realities of Kim being out in society and the male attention she'll attract ➜ Mairelon's oblivious focus on Kim's magical education and inability to follow where his mother is going with this line of questioning is so fun and so him ➜ what a cute and fun fic! ➜ 1k words in length

<blockquote>OR: Pride and Prejudice and cross-dressing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ray woke up staring at his own face, which was - okay, yeah, that was weird. Lately, he hadn't been waking up to anyone, and the last time he'd seen his own face first thing in the morning had been after that one-night stand with - Cyndi? Mindi? Didn't matter, anyway; she'd kicked him out before he'd had time to do more than notice his own bedhead. Ray had gone home, crawled into his own (mirrorless) bed, and gone back to sleep, which, hey: sounded like a pretty good idea, at that. "Ray," the other - and significantly more awake - him said, "Ray!" "Grnh?" Ray said, sitting up and scrubbing a hand through his hair, only it wasn't his hair - it was smooth, and longer, and when he pulled a strand down over his eyes to look at it, it was dark brown, the color of - oh. Oh.</blockquote>