True Blue
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Across the room, Adolin said something to Skar and leaned in to hear his reply. His eyes were shining, and he started laughing even before Skar opened his mouth, as if just assuming the humor of what was to come. A pre-pleasure. On a day when he was feeling less charitable, Kaladin would have taken it for artifice. A lighteyes, so desperate to entertain and be entertained, settling for a pantomime of connection. Kaladin almost wished he could conjure some of that comfortable disdain; without it, all that was left was a kind of pang in his chest and a sour curl on his lip. Adolin slung an arm around Skar's shoulder. Kaladin sank further into the bench, took another sip of ale, and gave up trying to look anywhere else.
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Newly enlightened and unburdened, Kaladin attends a party and realizes some things about Adolin Kholin that had escaped his notice before.
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- Part 1 of True Blue
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Kaladin had never been great with fantasy. It was to him a guilty thing. Even if he had been, his mind could never have approached this. Her eyes were still tired from sleep; the deep green of her robe set her hair and skin off so both glowed in the dawn light; he could see the outline of her legs through the nightgown below the hem of her robe. He wondered if a better man would hide his eyes, run out the door, fly out the window.
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Kaladin/Shallan into Shakalodin. Can be read as a standalone; just assume that Adolin and Kaladin have started a relationship with Shallan's blessing sometime before this.
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- Part 2 of True Blue