Heat Wave Day 4

Well. It's...lessening. Sort of.

I mean, the temperatures are lower, so that's good. But I'm back at my place now, and the air is so stagnant and heavy here and this place just sponges up heat; there's only so much fans can do and escaping whenever it's hot just isn't feasible - especially since there's no way this is going to get any better. Even if that was the worst of it for this summer, global warming ain't slowing down.

Which I hate, because I think the only solution that is sustainable to me physically continuing to exist is buying an air conditioner. (Along with probably half the state.) And I don't know what kind to pick, and the whole thing is so stressful and I only have so much brain capacity to think about what to do and how to do it.

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For all my complaining, though, I did get something written yesterday to project my misery onto a fictional character. I revised it today and put it up on AO3, but I'm also putting the text here because...I can.

It's based on me playing with the fact that canonically elves are very resistant to cold. They are probably also resistant to heat, but . . . what if they're not? Or what if, even if they are, there are mysterious Elf Magic Reasons for them not being resistant?

Anyway, ficlet below the cut.

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