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[bannion_sight]

It's the same coffeehouse they've been meeting in ever since they came back. Great for students, cheap food, cheap drinks -

It's all the same - but something's different. Kevin and Dave don't know what, exactly, but they can tell nonetheless. It's there in Paul's silence, and in the way he keeps looking at the door.

It's there, at long last. After this endless autumn: change.

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[pwyll_twiceborn]

Paul jumps in, with a warning glance, before Jen can answer.

"He's with a woman who'll care for him - the fewer people who know where, I think, the better."

[inthetapestry]

Jennifer gives Paul a very long look, but when she turns back to Dave, her eyes are kind, and she is even smiling, a little.

"He's being taken care of, yes. She'll take very good care of him, I think -- it's why I chose her."

A hesitation and then she tells them, all of them,

"His name is Darien."

[bannion_sight]

Darien.

She had dreamed it, had seen a golden-haired young man with brilliant blue eyes in the middle of a wood somewhere that she's never yet walked, and had known his name then with a Seer's deep and certain awareness.

Hearing it said is different, though. It's real-- her dreaming had come true, and even though she'd known it would, still, hearing it said gives her something of hope.

"Darien," Kim says softly, as her gaze goes unerringly to Paul.

"It's a beautiful name."

[pwyll_twiceborn]

Paul meets her gaze with his own, grey and steady.

He hasn't told Jen; it's in his look now, but then, he thinks, Kim knows that already.


There's silence for a moment, after that.

And eventually it's broken; Kevin makes a joke, and Dave asks a question; there's news to convey, and things to discuss, endlessly, as they've been discussing them all autumn -

- but the important things have been said.

His name is Darien.