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Azem is left for dead on a deserted island right before the Trojan War
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Huh. Wonder what she's up to.

Well, he can start making food out of the birds.

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Birds are plucked, cleaned, and after a fire is made, cooked!

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Eutelia returns midway through, dragging some sort of ceramic pitcher that looks intact, if a bit chipped.

"I return triumphant! I see you went hunting as well."

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"Welcome back! What was the triumph?"

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"Must I only have one? You wound me with your lack of faith. But the relevant one is this," she motions dramatically to the chipped pitcher. "Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find ceramics in the sea?"

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"I admit I do not. What were your other triumphs?"

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"I don't want to tell you," says Eutelia, brightly. While smirking. Apparently she's in the mood to be playfully disagreeable.

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"Is that so," says Zotikos, an eyebrow quirking up with mirth. "No hints either?"

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"Nope. And I will neither confirm nor deny guesses. You'll just have to live in ignorance."

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"Maybe I am very sure of my guesses."

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"You'll just have to live in ignorance," she repeats. Is that a hint of a blush on her cheeks? It looks a bit like it. She studiously changes the subject. "But it's actually very difficult to find lost ceramics in the sea, it's a rather big place. So you're welcome."

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"Thank you," he trills.

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She beams at him, sets the pitcher down, and looks curiously at the dead birds becoming dinner.

"Oh, you need to get the feathers off before you cook them. ... This continues to seem like quite a lot of work just to get food."

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"And yet it continues to be the case that it's tastier and in the end takes less time than if I had to eat enough raw food to survive."

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She giggles, apparently delighted by the banter.

"How do you know? Have you systematically compared the two methods?"

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"Not systematically, only anecdotally whenever I got stranded with no access to cooked food for days at a time."

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"Hmmm. Very well, you have more experience than me at this, so I suppose your logic gets a pass."

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"Also it's harder to chew," he adds as an afterthought. "And this is the time you tell me you have fangs."

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"I think you would have noticed if I did! Do I look like I have fangs?" She opens her mouth demonstrably; she looks to have a perfectly ordinary set of human teeth, no fangs in sight.

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"Maybe your teeth are sharper, then. Or maybe not, since you mostly eat fish."

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"Hm." She thoughtfully presses a canine with a thumb. "Maybe? I don't know how to judge the sharpness of one's teeth without sticking my fingers in your mouth, which I think doesn't seem worth the trouble."

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"When I've properly seduced you and we finally kiss I can test it empirically."

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"Properly seduced me?" she giggles, delighted. "You've been planning to?"

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That throws him for a loop. "And here I thought I was being too obvious about it!"

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"Well there's," she waves a hand vaguely, "trying to have sex with me and there's trying to romance me, I knew about the former but the, phrasing of 'seduce me' implies, um..."

She suddenly looks a little bit nervous and unsure, fidgeting with her hair and not looking at him.

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