Married by Accident
Nov. 25th, 2015 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdIt's one of those fannish tropes we see all the time.
The characters partake in some alien ritual and end up married.
It's kinda scary when it happens for real.
In October, I went to Festival of Souls.
I needed the ancestor ritual and the Labyrinth. I'd lost people this year.
As I walked into the labyrinth, I felt nothing. It was nothing but dark, lined with candles. Last time, I visited with my grandmothers. This time, I was the only person in the world.
A friend later said as I passed her and a couple other people the candles went out in my wake and the temperature dropped a good ten to twenty degrees. And the others noticed it.
I made it to the center. There was a firepit and incense. I sat down because everything hurt, I was feeling and hearing nothing, and I was done.
After a bit, Gabriel![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gabrielbelthir, took my hand and we walked out of the labyrinth, together, hand in hand.
In some traditions, including his, that is enough to make you married.
So I have a second husband, concurrent with the first.
It was a religious formalization of what had been happening for a while. It's a heavy responsibility, and a great joy, with both of them.
The characters partake in some alien ritual and end up married.
It's kinda scary when it happens for real.
In October, I went to Festival of Souls.
I needed the ancestor ritual and the Labyrinth. I'd lost people this year.
As I walked into the labyrinth, I felt nothing. It was nothing but dark, lined with candles. Last time, I visited with my grandmothers. This time, I was the only person in the world.
A friend later said as I passed her and a couple other people the candles went out in my wake and the temperature dropped a good ten to twenty degrees. And the others noticed it.
I made it to the center. There was a firepit and incense. I sat down because everything hurt, I was feeling and hearing nothing, and I was done.
After a bit, Gabriel
gabrielbelthir, took my hand and we walked out of the labyrinth, together, hand in hand.In some traditions, including his, that is enough to make you married.
So I have a second husband, concurrent with the first.
It was a religious formalization of what had been happening for a while. It's a heavy responsibility, and a great joy, with both of them.
