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[stirtheblood]

You can try texting Vicious if you want.

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[stirtheblood]

Is that different than doin' it 'cause I enjoy it?

[this is a genuine question]

[derailer]

Not significantly enough to be a real issue... but... Yes, I think they are different. I can tell that you have not been thinking of them as such. And it would probably be hard for me to separate it out in every instance, even when I hold this opinion.

[stirtheblood]

But suggestin' somethin' separates 'em, huh...?

[Vicious rolls onto his side, towards Ingo.]

I guess that makes some kinda sense. Bein' willin' to do somethin' and havin' the will to do somethin' to make it happen yourself are different things.

[derailer]

[He sinks down onto the bed to be level with him, facing him.]

Mm. Though, suggesting something just makes it clear that it cannot be entertaining someone else's novel idea. I believe you can genuinely like things and make them happen even if they are not your idea. With you, specifically, I am not sure the difference is enough to be worth lingering on to this degree...

All I meant to say is that I appreciate your ability to suggest things that I would not suggest myself, and I appreciate that you being the one who suggests them means that your consent is implied preemptively.

[stirtheblood]

Heh. Well, I'll keep suggestin' whatever comes to mind, then.

...Least for today.

[derailer]

Thank you!

[He brushes Vicious's hair back from his face, mostly as an excuse to touch him.]

Did you want to get ready for your piercing? Or stay like this for a while?

[stirtheblood]

[Vicious turns his head slightly into the touch.]

Do I gotta do somethin' to get ready...?

[derailer]

Well, I do. So I would have to get up.

[stirtheblood]

Hmmmm... well, this is nice too. Do you wanna get up? Or take a little more time, so you're ready when we're done?

[derailer]

That would not be the reason I took a little more time... It is comfortable like this.

[stirtheblood]

Heh. I don't mind relaxin' a bit.

[derailer]

You did not have the opportunity to relax in the world you came from, did you?

[stirtheblood]

Ehh, now and then I got to drink in peace for a bit. In inns if no one recognized me, or out in the wilderness if no monsters attacked.

There were a few quiet bits travelin' with everyone too. Though not so much recently, with enforcers comin' at us every second...

[derailer]

...I suppose that is not too different from the situation here. There is time to relax, but things will suddenly happen at any time...

[stirtheblood]

[dun dun dun]

Right. So ya gotta take advantage of the time when ya got it, right? For relaxin' as much as anythin' else.

[derailer]

Yes, I must!

[He wraps his arms around Vicious to squeeze tightly for a brief moment, to punctuate the point.]

[stirtheblood]

Heh.

[Vicious moves an arm over Ingo and flips his feather a bit.]

That said, relaxin' along with someone else is still pretty new for me.

[derailer]

It is really amazing how comforting physical contact can be, all on its own! I am glad you have been given the experience.

[stirtheblood]

Ya say that like ya ain't the one givin' it to me right now.

[derailer]

Well—yes... I suppose that makes it sound as if I am angling for praise...

[Which he does do and did do yesterday, but generally much more in the heat of the moment,]

This was not my intention! I am glad that you will be receiving it after this as well! That is the feeling I was trying to convey!

[stirtheblood]

[Vicious shrugs a bit.]

Well, anythin' could happen in the future, right...?

[derailer]

Mmmm... That is true enough...

But you would not regret having had the experience, if it went away later... would you?

[stirtheblood]

Nah. Everythin' goes away eventually, so if I went around not doin' stuff just 'cause o' that, I'd never do anythin'.

And what fun would that be?

[derailer]

It would be a hollow life indeed.

[But he does also feel reassured after having fumbled his words. He gradually slides away to sit up.]

[stirtheblood]

Hm, ya gonna get ready for it now?