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✉️ text — un: astarion.

[thirsted]

What is this 🫰

[corporeity]

Well, I’m almost certain it isn't intended to represent the somatic component for the thunderclap cantrip.

[thirsted]

[ Following a moment's thought, and sent with the full expectation that Gale will have a thing or two to say about the precision of the pictographs: ]

✋✌️👍🤏👇🤏✌️ 🔥

[corporeity]

[ ❗️❗️❗️
😍😍😍 ]

Hah!
You’re missing a 🤲 and a🫸 🫷
Perhaps my next lesson should be more hands on.

[thirsted]

Careful, or the idea of being a poor student might become more appealing to me than the alternative.

[corporeity]

Well, we can’t have that. Whatever might motivate you to excel?

[thirsted]

What a quandary. 🤔 Perhaps the promise of a kiss, upon a lesson well learned?

[corporeity]

[ blushing, as if they do not, in fact, kiss every day — ]

Now, there’s an idea. Have I told you how clever you are, of late?

[thirsted]

I don't mind being told twice.

[corporeity]

You’re awfully clever, my darling. And devastatingly beautiful, besides. If there’s a flaw in your proposal, it’s that I’d surely kiss you even if you performed poorly.

[thirsted]

Now, that's more like it.

[ Then, momentarily: ]

Perhaps we ought to blindfold you. Make it that much harder for you to be too dazzled.

[corporeity]

[ 😳🥵😳🥵😳

he types and deletes his dweeby follow-up questions — you’d like that? — opts instead for. ]

Gosh, what an idea.
I suppose we’ll only know if we test the theory. Preferably in comparison to an alternative method of limiting sensory input… they say tying the hands does wonders for the unquiet mind.

[ and maybe by couching it in the language of academia, he ensures they can still see the escape route. testing and trying and discarding what doesn’t suit. ]

[thirsted]

[ It's— novel, getting to parse through and consider such things where he'd allowed himself to be led without question before. Does he want this? of as much as importance as the follow-up: if he doesn't, they can stop. ]

Well, we'd best set aside some time to conduct a proper study, then. Enough time to be thorough. 😘

[corporeity]

I’m certain I could find a few hours — perhaps even an evening — for such a worthy endeavour.
📚✍️🥰❤️

[thirsted]

Lucky me. 😇 Quite sufficient motivation, I think, for me to be on good behavior.

[corporeity]

My, it seems there’s no problem we can’t solve together.

[thirsted]

Quite right.

[ A beat. He thinks, a little reluctantly, of the ups and downs of the past month, of the more extreme or solitary methods they've both entertained in the name of continuing forward. ]

We'd both do well to remember it.

[corporeity]

[ Aha. ]

We will.
I will.

[ He’ll remember it — that he’s no longer alone in his tower, hunched over his scattered papers, with no one to fetch them. ]

❤️