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✉️ text — un: astarion.

[thirsted]

Have you really not visited the theater yet, my dear? I ought to have asked when I saw you last, but I confess it slipped my mind.

[unapparent]

I’ve not had an occasion to attend — or an idea of where to begin, for that matter.

Do you favour it so?

[thirsted]

It's a pleasantly diverting pastime — and hardly one that requires an occasion beyond a couple of spare hours.

I'll take you some time, if you aren't beset by offers from every side already.

[unapparent]

You overestimate my appeal — or, at least, the bravery of my suitors.

[thirsted]

Well, I know it isn't the former.

It'll be a good excuse for you to meet Gale, besides. And you can show your suitors how to dote upon you properly.

[unapparent]

If he does not mind my bending your ear, to explain that which I do not understand.

What film will you pick for our first?

[thirsted]

He's rather prone to chatter, himself — I think it'd be unlike him to complain.

I've been meaning to catch one titled When Harry Met Sally.

[ Recommended by Matt, prior to his disappearance, a thought that stings for a moment. ]

A romance and a comedy both, if I'm to understand it correctly.

[unapparent]

Oh, will you be taking notes for your beau?

[ it could be helpful for her as well, in that way, with how flummoxed she is by modern notions of romance. ]

[thirsted]

Oh! I hadn’t thought of that — a luxury of courting someone with a relatively similar scope of familiarity, I suppose.

[ thinking suddenly of the dvd spine he’d seen reading how to lose a guy in 10 days … he’ll be skipping that one then!! ]

But perhaps I will. It can’t hurt to be kept abreast.

Will you?

[unapparent]

Perhaps. I admit that my courting days were curtailed by my first marriage.

[ so she maybe! has no idea! what she’s doing! ]

[thirsted]

[ Ellipses for a moment, and then: ]

It isn't quite the same, is it.

[ A statement, not a question. Not the same, when there's no spark. When it's a necessity, not a choice. ]

At least we have the latitude, now. And perhaps a little more common sense than most.

[unapparent]

[ She thinks of returning Viserys’ precious models, the affection blooming on his features as dread churned her insides.

No, it isn’t the same. ]

A rather lot, judging by the state of the manor.

[thirsted]

You know, I do so like it when you're sharp.

I'll set a date, then. And we'll set aside time to compare notes, after.

[unapparent]

And here I thought you’d gone soft.

[ with his puppy dog of a man. ]

I shall look forward to it, Astarion.