[The words catch in his throat; he's trying to process it and it'd be extremely amusing to hear it talked about in terms of "those days" if he didn't feel a pang of guilt. Okay, no, it is amusing. With the guilt.]
I never said that.
[He's blinking, working through all the lines of logic, fiddling with the spoon.]
Do you really think France would ever agree to monogamy? I wouldn't allow anything one-sided in that regard, where he got to dally about and I were -- no, particularly not here, not with all the things this place does. We're not exclusive.
[He's regretting the word choice of "allow" a little bit, but moving on.]
I never would have either. Even just upon arriving here we loathed each other. Loathed, dreaded, what have you -- something about this place broke down the walls we put up for each other. [There's a fondness about him but he's definitely still looking down at the ice cream.] That and all living together in the apartment building. If there's one thing I miss about being an empire it's having so many of us living together. But I never would have thought you and I would have that opportunity, being an ocean apart.
[Now he looks up, with a dry smirk.] Unless you decided to invade, of course.
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[The words catch in his throat; he's trying to process it and it'd be extremely amusing to hear it talked about in terms of "those days" if he didn't feel a pang of guilt. Okay, no, it is amusing. With the guilt.]
I never said that.
[He's blinking, working through all the lines of logic, fiddling with the spoon.]
Do you really think France would ever agree to monogamy? I wouldn't allow anything one-sided in that regard, where he got to dally about and I were -- no, particularly not here, not with all the things this place does. We're not exclusive.
[He's regretting the word choice of "allow" a little bit, but moving on.]
I never would have either. Even just upon arriving here we loathed each other. Loathed, dreaded, what have you -- something about this place broke down the walls we put up for each other. [There's a fondness about him but he's definitely still looking down at the ice cream.] That and all living together in the apartment building. If there's one thing I miss about being an empire it's having so many of us living together. But I never would have thought you and I would have that opportunity, being an ocean apart.
[Now he looks up, with a dry smirk.] Unless you decided to invade, of course.