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“I know you can, Uaithne. Listen once and then repeat after me.” He waited for Nelson to nod and Clancy closed his eyes. “Du thabairt dorais du glé, for mu muid céin am messe,”2 he said, pausing for just a moment. “Du thabairt dorais du glé, for mu muid céin am messe.” Clancy ducked his head, signaling for Nelson to try.
He took a deep breath and Nelson’s lips knew the words. “Du thabairt dorais du glé, for mu muid céin am messe,” he whispered, closing his eyes.
“Good! Again!” Clancy urged.
“Du thabairt dorais du glé, for mu muid céin am messe.” The words came so easily and felt like saying “I love you.” Nelson sank into the safety and joy as his palm burned against Nox’s. “Du thabairt dorais du glé, for mu muid céin am messe.”
“That’s it. Find your heart. Call him back home, Uaithne,” Clancy urged in a ragged whisper.
“Du thabairt dorais du glé, for mu muid céin am messe.”
“He’s doing it!” Merlin cheered as he hopped by the door.
“Ssshh!” Clancy threw a hostile glare at Merlin, causing him to rear back. “Go on,” Clancy said to Nelson encouragingly.
Nelson tuned both of them out and continued to whisper the words to Nox, seeking him through the bright heat. I am the knowledge and the door, turning the darkness into light. It was nonsense to Nelson, but he loved Nox more and felt closer to the light every time he said it.
“Du thabairt dorais du glé, for mu muid céin am messe.”
A beautiful laugh spilled from Nox’s mouth. Not the strumming of a glorious harp, but Nox’s bouncing, giddy laugh. He slurred Nelson’s name as he settled back onto the mattress and let out a contented sigh.
“Nox?” Nelson asked, shaking him.
“Mmm… I’mm Nox,” he sighed with the faintest smile.
“Thank gods,” Clancy said as he braced his hands on the bed, crying and praying. “Don’t do this again,” he said, once he had regained his composure, rising and turning to Merlin.
This time, Merlin snarled back, wielding a smoking smudge stick as he rushed forward. “How dare you? After the things you’ve done.”
“That was a mistake!” Clancy hissed, then pointed at Nelson “But this? Have you no shame?”
“It had to be done!” Merlin said.
“Enough!” Nelson whispered as loudly as he could, flipping a pillow in Clancy’s direction. “Get out!” he said, as he shooed both of them off. Clancy and Merlin stared at Nelson for several moments before they bowed and mumbled apologies. “Wait,” Nelson called before Merlin could close the door behind them. “We’re not done talking about this. I don’t know how long it’ll be before I’ll be able to look either of you in the eye again, but we’re not done,” he warned, receiving penitent bows from Merlin and Clancy before they left.
Nelson was just nodding off to sleep when Nox tugged on his sleeve. “Nelson.”
“Hmm?” he hummed and kissed Nox’s hair.
“Please tell me you remember what happened,” he said weakly, but Nelson shook his head.
“No. I can’t remember anything specific. It’s too foggy,” he said, earning a forlorn sigh from Nox.
“That’s too bad because…wow, Nelson. 10/10, holy dick. I’d totally buy another ticket and ride it again.”
Were all the demigods horny idiots?
Nelson stared at the door, wishing he could call Merlin and Clancy back to ask and wishing he had gone with them. “I nearly lost you to the Otherworld and that’s what you came back with? Holy dick?”
Nox smirked dreamily. “Like holy shit, but holy dick. Get it? Because you dicked me right into Mag Mell and I saw a god.”
“I get it,” Nelson said, massaging Nox’s scalp, hoping to soothe him back to sleep. “You’re not taking that ride again.”
“No?” Nox asked with a loud yawn.
“No. Not unless I can go with you.”
Nox’s yawn turned into a sated chuckle. “You should. It was heaven but it would have been way hotter if you were there. With your holy dick.”
