Oh, thanks so much! (Anytime I try to write these two, I always feel like I have to stop and do something about what I experience as Edge being a boundary-violating asshole before they can go forward in a healthy way. This makes it hard for me to write them for prompts normally, but yours was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT for poking at that and letting them have at least the start of a happy ending at the same time, so I thank you for it!)

And so glad you love it--- I also can't not poke how Rydia's Extremely Unusual Background affects her. (In my head, it's one of the reasons she can forgive Cecil and Kain for her mother and her village, too--- because she grew up with a whole species of creatures who can be summoned to do their Callers' bidding, willy-nilly, and she starts to see them in the same vein thereafter.)