Jag: Pol and blobStephen are eyeing each other.
Kiki: ... oh dear
Jag: Sort of... um. Sizing each other up?
Kiki: yup
Jag: And shaking hands...
Kiki: considering that Sol and Pol are close... sizing each other up would make sense
Jag: ... oddly, blobStephen seems to refer to Pollux by his family name. Not b y his first name.
Or by his full first name if he does at all
Kiki: to Pol? not to Justin?
Jag: To Pol.
Justin is always Warden DuMorne
Kiki: you don't feel fully 100% in the name, do you
Jag: I have no idea. *wry*
Does it feel right for Solace's husband?
Kiki: it could. I think the first time... she paid attention to him, it was a three-way meeting, and the third party was getting... well very unpleasant. To the point where Sol goes almost hissing. And he goes... "The lady asked you to... blah blah" with this perfectly even calm tone as though asking his butler for the time
don't even know if that meeting came to drawing blood (or which one - sol or stephen - drew weapon first)
Jag: Stephen carries a... a knife
I don't know if it's a dagger or a fold-out, but something small and pointy.
Kiki: when the business is dangeorus, Sol probably carries... three. Leather clothes make fine daggers rather easy to conceal
Jag: Yes
and then he apologized and asked if she was all right, still in that perfectly calm tone?
Kiki: hehe yes
Jag: And.. they went out for dinner that night
Kiki: Very probable. I wonder if they fought who to pay.
verbally argue, I mean
Jag: Yeah.
Mm. Might have
Kiki: She's... even when she's interested, she's very careful with her clients
always assuming that they know and can do things that she doesn't.
Jag: ... is he one of her clients?
Or just a business acquaintance?
Kiki: she thinks of all those she has buisness interactions with as clients
anybody she buys from or sells to, whether items or information or services
Jag: Ahh.
... I'm kind of thinking he invites her back to his hotel room
Kiki: which she would accept
Jag: And then?
Kiki: lmao and then she remains unimpressed... which he takes up as a challenge and asks for a rematch later?
Jag: Maybe not a challenge but she's intrigued.
intriguing.
English, I has it
*wry* He'd quite blatantly invite her back to his hotel room for sex.
Kiki: ... which reminds her of her in her youth ;)
Jag: *laughs*
I suspect he does everything coolly, and she seems like a person who he could sleep with without ... letting feelings get in the way, as it were. Who wouldn't take it as an invitation for more
Kiki: oh yes.
except that each time they challenge each other
until at one point he's relishing the challenges - and the praise/recognition about as much as the sex
Jag: (He really kind of does remind me of a less extreme Patrick Bateman)
Yes.
Kiki: Anyhoo. While before I thought about it as... a normal, toned down caring marriage, now I think it could be almost like a quiet addiction to each other. each of them seeing the other as something... nobody else can give him/her
Jag: ... Which sounds like a fairly typical DuMorne marriage
Kiki: *snickers* yes it does
however, maybe a bit down on the sappy
and possibly a bit higher on the snippy
Jag: Heh
You think.. hmm.
A relationship that turns from business relations with sex on the side b ecause they're both attractive people and they both enjoy sex
To something like love?
Kiki: Something like
just about everyone who has seen Sol around Valentine's time probably knows it's not love as it was then
there's no portion of ... blindness to it, no closing one's eyes to the oddity in the other (okay, this part doesn't sound deviant for a DuMorne either)
Jag: Heh. Melting the ice king.
In her case.
Although I think if he really wanted to hurt her he'd call her damaged goods.
Kiki: except that she gets to chip at the ice casing
Jag: Yep.
Kiki: *snickers*
... now that would probably be a challenge for him
find something to call her that will offend her
Jag: *ponders* I have the feeling he might succed.
But I don't know what it would be.
Kiki: *giggles*
In order to succeed, he needs to get to know her. Feel with her a little
so even if he does, it will be a bit of a victory for her too
Jag: Yep