Second Anniversary

Two years now have passed since my beloved and I became a pair. While the first year was difficult, this second surpassed that challenge with ease. Yet still we are together. And, I may boast that we are both better because of it.

The surprise I plotted went well overall, but the deception failed. My beloved knew instantly to be suspicious regardless of Mirtai's talent with distraction. But there was accommodation and genuine appreciation when I revealed the gift. A copper bathtub augmented with heat runes (it took a bloody long time to calculate how to do it). What I did not expect was what I received.

An old conceit, blinded by my disdain, given sight again.