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Linya and Bella are working on wishes, in between light chat about runecasting and their personal lives. It is radiantly obvious to people paying attention that Bella wants to kiss her and Linya is married, although neither statement is made.
Ivans are playing cards.
Mileses, including Solvei, are debating the wisdom of borrowing another strategy game from Bar; Mark, a voice of caution, does not know what will happen if all of them (Solvei, Mial, Miles, Milo, Stalas) all start screaming at each other in twenty directions.
And -
gloriousdawn
"Oh, I've got one for the newcomers," says Solvei. "Where do you rate on the Miles Bisexuality Scale?"
thisvorlunatic
"So it turns out that the way sexuality varies between alts can be a little idiosyncratic," says Miles. "And Miles instances in particular seem to follow the pattern that, all else being equal, we're bisexual, and when circumstantial factors such as cultural prejudice intervene, we end up with our attraction patterns partially stifled. I, for example, am for nearly all relevant purposes interested solely in girls."
"Half and half," volunteers Mial.
"Confused but more or less also half and half," says Stalas.
"Half and half," volunteers Mial.
"Confused but more or less also half and half," says Stalas.
first-and-final
"I'm over on Stalas and Mial's end," says Milo.
"...okay, since we're apparently doing this: mostly girls?" says Ashras.
"I abstain from this survey," says Milan.
"...okay, since we're apparently doing this: mostly girls?" says Ashras.
"I abstain from this survey," says Milan.
middlingalong
"We all match too. Mostly girls, circumstantially flexible. The wosscalleds don't though."
isthisart
"Bells. Much prettier than 'wosscalleds'. And until Bella came along I didn't know if we actually didn't match or if I was a genetically engineered one-off anomaly, because the haut are fifty percent bisexual quite deliberately."
thisvorlunatic
...Miles catches sight of some facial expressions that he has not previously been in a position to see.
Miles pens Linya: Should we be discussing removal of husband from alt-related equations...?
Miles pens Linya: Should we be discussing removal of husband from alt-related equations...?
thisvorlunatic
I'm saying I have absolutely no objection whatsoever to you kissing her.
"Should I not be asking why you abstained?" inquires Stalas of Milan.
"Should I not be asking why you abstained?" inquires Stalas of Milan.
isthisart
And she would be thrilled, but she is single while we have been being monogamous. Are you suggesting a single exception or a class of them?
thisvorlunatic
"Please don't guess," says Miles, catching the thread of this exchange despite his distraction.
To Linya he pens, Alts as a class. And if you made the reciprocal exception I might look at some alts where I wouldn't be especially inclined to look at just anybody even if I had the option, but I'm just as happy without.
To Linya he pens, Alts as a class. And if you made the reciprocal exception I might look at some alts where I wouldn't be especially inclined to look at just anybody even if I had the option, but I'm just as happy without.
isthisart
If you don't object I'd just as soon continue to keep you to myself, but if you likewise don't mind if I do kiss her I very well might. Significantly because her massive egotistical crush on me is adorable.
isthisart
With that, Linya murmurs something to Bella, who blushes, slightly, and then Linya remarks, "I'm going to see if I can't take advantage of the time-dilation here again. Do pen me if anything interesting happens."
And they go upstairs.
And they go upstairs.
gloriousdawn
"Huh, a little bit," says Solvei. "—Uh, earlier Sis kept getting pissed off at Mark for being able to half read our damn mind, and the phrase she used as shorthand for this was 'outside view', because that's sort of the relevant factor from her perspective, the fact that Mark sees his Miles from the outside so he knows what it looks like when various things are happening in a Miles's brain so he has a well-developed ability to guess what we're thinking. Sis is starting to pick up the skill."
unmarred
"Outside view," Inlaith repeats thoughtfully. "Yeah."
"I'm picking up the generalized version with pleasing rapidity," says Mark.
"I'm picking up the generalized version with pleasing rapidity," says Mark.