[242] Big Round Things (Stand Still Stay Silent)

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Title: Big Round Things
Fandom: Stand Still Stay Silent
Characters/Pairings: Sigrun Eide/Tuuri Hotakainen
Rating: teen
Words: 233
Notes: Also for a stillsyns prompt.

"How is the world round? It's mostly jagged where I'm from."

"It's round if you look at it from far enough away. It's just..." Tuuri spread her hands, as if holding an imaginary sphere, "really, really big, so mountains don't really make much of a difference."

Sigrun scrunched her nose. "Mountains don't make a difference?"

"Well, yeah. Like a surface can look really flat when you look at it from far away, but when you get close up you see it has all sorts of notches and ridges on it?"

Sigrun flopped back on the bed. "Why would anyone need to know that?"

"Well, navigators do..."

"Fuck navigators."

Tuuri snuggled up to her lover under the covers, to apologize for this late-night, post-sex, off-topic conversational turn. She'd read an old-world adventure book once, full of weird references and descriptions she still couldn't quite understand, in which the lead had described his head as an empty attic, to be stocked with only information that was useful to it. Sigrun knew a lot about what she needed to know, and was only annoyed by unimportant information encroaching on her attic. "Yeah, fuck 'em," Tuuri agreed, because that was easier than trying to put forward the attic-comparison. "The world could be square for all we need to know."

She got a kiss on the forehead and a squeeze of her bottom for her trouble. "THANK you."