audience: astarion

[mygod]

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[mygod]

Nope! It's 20.

[ They make the same motion, but going in the other way. ]

[haematocritical]

[ makes the motion he was making before, but faster! ]

What happened to the other five?

[mygod]

[ THEY ARE JUST SPINNING THEIR HANDS. ]

Nothing.

[haematocritical]

[ keep going maybe they’ll take off. ]

Now that just seems like a lie.

[mygod]

It's not! You're just being weird and mistrustful.

[haematocritical]

So says you hiding your face with a mask.

[mygod]

And you are really convincing me to take it off! Are you normally this great of a sweet talker?

[haematocritical]

I'm not actively persuading you of anything. Merely pointing it out.

[mygod]

Seems a little off topic.

[haematocritical]

Not really. You talked about mistrust, yet you won’t show your faces.

Presumably something to do with avoiding detection so I’m not denying there’s a reason, but it can’t be all that surprising there’s a seed of mistrust around the place.

[mygod]

Well, the mistrust is because you keep insisting I'm lying about something, when I'm not. I was joking about 25-- it's a math joke. There's only 40 of you, so it wouldn't add up to that.

[ They sigh. ]

I'll make sure to only be literal from now on though.

[haematocritical]

[ he sighs and rubs the bridge of his own. ]

Maybe try the jokes and puns when I'm not stressed about kidnapping and sacrifice. I'll try to appreciate them more then. [ a little dryly. ]

[mygod]

Oh!

Are you into jokes?

[haematocritical]

...

I think it depends on the joke. [ he just has this Feeling. ] Why, do you have more of them...?

[mygod]

[ They smile. ]

Do you want to hear them?

[haematocritical]

[ ………… ]

It’s not like I have much else going on right now.

[mygod]

Knock knock.

[haematocritical]

[ resigned even though he asked for this: ]

Who's there.

[mygod]

[ HEH.... ]

Tank!

[haematocritical]

[ closes his eyes ]

…




Tank who.

[ IT IS DRAGGED OUT OF HIM SO SLOWLY. SO PAINFULLY ]

[mygod]

[ Trying desperately to not laugh, ]

You're welcome!

[haematocritical]

[ groaning noises ]

[mygod]

That was good, right? It was really good?

[haematocritical]

[ he suffered for 200 years he might as well suffer for another five minutes. ]

A question for you first: do you genuinely think that was really good?

[mygod]

Oh, come on. It had everything. A pun, a classic setup...

[ Astarion...... it's funny. ]