audience: astarion

[mygod]

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[haematocritical]

Not quite like this, but … smaller, yes. I’ve come across a travelling circus in my time.

[mygod]

Karlach mentioned that to me on our friend date.

[ she peeks over the side. ]

Do you enjoy stuff like this?

[haematocritical]

[ friend date….. cute…. ]

Hard to say. The last encounter I had with a circus involved being turned into cheese and having to kill an imposter clown.

[mygod]

[ a long pause. ]

I have so many questions. C... cheese?

[haematocritical]

[ somehow brightly and tiredly at the same time: ]

Cheese!

[mygod]

[ slowly reaches over and pokes him, like confirming he is not cheese. ]

But why.

[haematocritical]

[ he melts like mozzarella. no. ]

I told a djinn running a cursed carnival game that he was a cheating bastard.

[mygod]

[ help. ]

And how were you uncheesed?

[haematocritical]

Polymorph’s only a spell. They all wear off after a while.

[mygod]

Whoa! So they turn you into cheese often?

[haematocritical]

No, that was a once in an unfortunate life time experience. Why cheese, I don’t know. Most people would choose something else.

[mygod]

Something less... cheesy?

[ hehehehoohoo ]

[haematocritical]

[ heeheehoohoo ]

Potentially. Usually something useless though.

[mygod]

Is that like a... wizard... thing?

[ she knows all about wizards. SOMEONE won't fuckin shut up about wizards. ]

[haematocritical]

That is absolutely a wizard thing! Yes. If I tell you ask Gale about it because my magical knowledge is lacking, are you going to potentially burst into tears?

[mygod]

No...

[ she is definitely lying. ]

I don't mind listening, but you get so lost a few sentences in.

[haematocritical]

He has a lot of thoughts up there in that big old brain of his. Most of them slip out.

[ honestly, what a mood. filter? we don’t know her. ]

Nodding at appropriate points helps you seem engaged.

[mygod]

[ she nods her head at this ]

You guys are all pretty good friends?

[haematocritical]

I—

[ …….. ]

… I suppose?

[mygod]

[ help. ]

You sound unsure.

[haematocritical]

The circumstances of the three of us meeting were... unique.

[mygod]

I heard about a little bit of it from Karlach. Just... the general meeting, and Gale was in a rock.

[haematocritical]

I think our meetings all differ somewhat. Gale would tell you I tried to interrogate him with a knife. I would tell you he was absolutely stuck in a rock.

[mygod]

Ahh, he did mention your memories don't all match with each other...

But how did it go on your side? Anyone else pulling out knives?

[haematocritical]

[ hmmm. ]

Lae’zel, sort of. She did try to kill me on the Nautiloid.