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[ Oh . . . ]

He seemed alright with it?

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He seemed all right with it.

He is also in a prior relationship at home, which makes it further complicated to navigate, but. I do not think it in his character to seek this out if it were not condoned. Though I will ask.

[makes an unusually vague hand gesture to go with this, which does not really indicate what he is thinking, but it's something like: should he still feel odd and out of his depth and a bit achy about being a candidate for multiple people's cartoon hell Vegas relationships, or flattered, at this point. it's been like four days, he doesn't know. there was death thrown in there for funsies and revenge. no one has had time to process a damn thing, including him. he has been running more emotional mileage on and off in this first almost-month than in the last several years.]

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[ A lost hand gesture from Charon with no clear meaning is a story that tells plenty. ]

Mm. Good.

[ He flips open the notebook and thumbs through the pages for a moment, before pulling out a certain unsigned telegram. He slides it across the table. ]

Was this you?

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[...

how did that one even get to Minuet with any certainty. he blames Lethe.]

Yes, it was.

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[ Good instinct!

He doesn't comment directly, just tucks it back where it was. ]


I'm glad you said yes. For the record.

[endsjustified]

...

I am glad you offered. It would likely not have been pursued, if you did not.

[Minuet had felt that vicious, circular hesitation even when he had.]

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Relegated instead to surreal, recurring dreams?

[ Wry. He suspects that's not gonna stop. ]

It wouldn't have been the end of the world. But it's sad to think of, now.

[endsjustified]

Which answers the question of if you regret it, I suppose.

[equally wry]

I don't dream those lucid, you know. They reach my awareness only when they've concluded; I broke a stack of dishes, after the first one.

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[ . . .

Okay, that gets him to laugh hard enough that he has to immediately put the teacup he'd just picked up back down ]

[endsjustified]

[nerd. smiles a private little smile to himself and reaches over to pat his shoulder and back, though]

I'm glad my suffering amuses.

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I guess I owe you some plates.

[endsjustified]

They've been replaced since. I'll be content with the fact you were obviously as surprised as I was.

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Well, no offense intended or anything, but it didn't seem like the kinda thing my subconscious would just randomly conjure up . . .

[endsjustified]

None taken.

It did seem important to clarify I didn't deliberately put the idea in your head. It's probable Perci's mindscape just...left some very direct impressions.

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Distinct impressions.

[ lmao

What would some random drunk in a saloon have called it? ]

A-- wing kink?

[endsjustified]

[minuet shut the fuck up challenge!!!]

I like them. I do not know if that constitutes a. Kink, specifically.

You were compelling before I knew you had wings. You are both compelling whether you have them or not.

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[ Make him shut up yourself, coward. ]

I'll be honest, it's not an opinion I expected to ever encounter.

It's not the reason you're compelling, but it's definitely part of what makes you an oddity.

[endsjustified]

[no, oh my god. he got Minuet to hold still long enough to use real mouthwords, he can make him shut up after.]

Because I don't require a partner to be human, or present as one...? Or because I find the differences attractive?

It may just be unfair advantage, you know. Humans are a majority population on my world, but they are by no means the only sentient race there.

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Uh, well . . . it's a "shoot on sight" kinda thing, where I'm from. So both?

[endsjustified]

[yikes. frowns censoriously]

Well, I'm not going to shoot you.

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[ Dry, ]

I appreciate the restraint.

. . . I did think you were gonna call off working together after that first time you saw it, though.

[endsjustified]

Restraining Fantasia...?

No. The form was a genuine surprise, but you had already told me you were not human, in some fashion or another.

If it were an issue, I would have told you then.

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It seems silly now, of course. But-- well.

I've chalked it up to just one of the many otherwise impossible things that happen here.

[endsjustified]

Your world gave you pain. Perhaps the universe need not.

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[ Mmmmmmm complicated feelings tied up in that statement, but. ]

What a sap.