[For a second, Dualscar doesn't understand, then his eyes widen as what the Psiioniic has just told him sinks in. His name, his name from before, he's just told him his name! That distracts him enough that he doesn't notice how their bulges are untangled, and then...]
[And then the Psiioniic slips inside him, and Dualscar makes a low little groaning sound and hides his face in the other troll's chest again.]
T-Trafal.
[There it is, the name no one has called him since his lusus died, but which he's always kept close to his heart, as close as his sign, and a single purple tear steals out from under Dualscar's eyelid and trickles down his cheek. Maybe that was part of the reason he took to the name 22 so readily, because it sounds enough like Trafal to remind him of what it felt like to be loved.]
maybe a few threads from now?
[And then the Psiioniic slips inside him, and Dualscar makes a low little groaning sound and hides his face in the other troll's chest again.]
T-Trafal.
[There it is, the name no one has called him since his lusus died, but which he's always kept close to his heart, as close as his sign, and a single purple tear steals out from under Dualscar's eyelid and trickles down his cheek. Maybe that was part of the reason he took to the name 22 so readily, because it sounds enough like Trafal to remind him of what it felt like to be loved.]