Dusted

"What do you want from me? Jewels? Potions? Information?Askme."

Yuu could feel it through his fingers, in his pulse. He didn't just want her to ask. Heneededit.

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Yuu's roommate from her first year at NRC/Ramshackle has been gone a year now, participating in the Atlantican Exchange Program. The first Yuu hears from her is when a wedding invitation arrives on her doorstep announcing the union between her roommate, and the heir of the largest potion ingredients syndicate in Atlantica. Yuu attends the wedding for her friend, but for Azul Ashengrotto? In the midst of the wedding scandal, this is an opportunity for Azul to repair relations with the groom—his cousin. It's not every day after all, that a merman in his position chooses to marry, and even rarer, chooses a human.

Unfortunately for Azul, the prankster bride plants a handkerchief of Red Dust on Yuu. Through her, Azul is exposed to a substance designed to reveal secrets. Against Madam Ashengrotto's wishes, Yuu and Azul find themselves pulled together by the residual effect of what happens at the wedding, far sooner than either are ready for. Both are unwittingly tied up in a spicy new scandal of their own—this time under the scrutiny of more than just a party.