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📜 Writing epic fantasy. Obsessed with ancient history. 🎲 DM and mini painter. 🏳🌈 Genderqueer (Any/All) | Aroace | ND Projects: 🐲 Royal Magpie series - Dragons, Queer Romance, Rome-flavored 🏛 7 Days of Fire - Historical Fiction, Fall of Carthage
![Davros pours the tea—first Imai’s, then his. He lowers his head. “Otogi Imai, honored guard. I must apologize. I don’t hate you. I was…afraid of you.” Davros’ hands tremble. He clenches them into fists. “I feared your reaction to my true nature and assumed something untrue.”
“True nature?”
“Yes. I—” His voice catches. Davros glances over at Takuro, who makes a ‘get on with it’ gesture. “I’m the sipu. The one from the myths.”
He said it. Surely now, Imai will hate him. Silence stretches for several long breaths before the guardsman says, “And?”
Davros’ head jerks. “What do you mean, ‘and’? You don’t care that I’m something out of a horror story?”
“No.” Imai sips his tea. “It does not fit. You are too anxious.”
Takuro’s laugh splits the air. Davros glares at him. It only makes the fox laugh harder. “[Herald]. You must stop assuming the worst of your new companions.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3fewv34g2une55wikkpsadfv/bafkreifx4os7qmo54ivwqz6xetf43c6aleshpcnvtncvx32c7zsnn54peu)
