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[untempered]

Who: anyone
When: Day 27, evening
Where: Apartment Z
What: TABLEGASM

[So there's been drama, there's been hangovers, there's been nature violence and there's been the drudgery of daily life. But who cares about that. The door to Z is open and Noric is in the middle of the room, studying the ebony, fancy looking furniture item that just appeared there.]

...I'm almost loathe to admit this... but I kind of want to sleep on it, just because I can.

[Oh yes. Apartment Z got a table.]

Comments

[untempered]

I didn't think you were.

[intellectum]

But you're worried. Normally, you would have charged ahead.

[untempered]

[...laughs]

Nothing's normal anymore.

[intellectum]

No.

But do you want it to be?

[untempered]

[quiet]

It can't be, Xavier.

[intellectum]

It can't if you don't want it to be.

[untempered]

[and it's like an echo from years ago]

I don't know what I want.

[intellectum]

You want me.

[untempered]

...

[intellectum]

It might not be the best start, but it's a start.

[untempered]

[...nods, not trusting himself to speak]

[intellectum]

[touches his face]

Don't let this place get in the way.

[untempered]

[leans into the touch]

How? It's all so... wrong.

[intellectum]

It's different. It's not our world. And I wouldn't ask you to make it yours.

But wrong as it is, there's some... rightness in being here.

[untempered]

...I'm sorry. I know I'm not making the best of things.

[intellectum]

No one will ask you to. But I don't think we should... waste time as well.

[untempered]

[shuts his eyes, stifling his feelings.]

[intellectum]

None of that. If you want to feel, then feel.

[untempered]

[shakes his head]

[intellectum]

I don't mind.

[untempered]

I'll break.

[intellectum]

I'll put you back together. I have experience in that.

[untempered]

I don't-- I-I can't, can't be useless for a year again, I won't...

[intellectum]

You're not useless. But I don't care about that. That's not what's important to me.

[untempered]

...