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[sliceitwithwind]

Xaldin is in the bar wearing a dress. There are no bar things making him do so. He just felt like it.

He hasn't shaved anything. And is a very hairy man.

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[ostro_goth]

It might be a special costume, to wear on some holiday -- somewhere.

Teja cannot tell; and Xaldin, he argues with himself, has known very many worlds.

To him, it looks like a woman's dress; but he is willing to forgo cultural prejudices.

"Greetings, Xaldin!" he says, approaching his friend.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Hey, Teja." Xaldin would admit it is a woman's dress if Teja asked. "How goes?"

[ostro_goth]

"It goes well," Teja says. "The usual drama of this place seem, momentarily, in abeyance. I am making love-tokens from silver, gold or mokume-gane, not sharp-edged weapons from folded steel. The former seem in greater demand, right now."

He looks at Xaldin's dress. "Is it a special holiday, in one of your worlds?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Hm? No. I just felt like wearing a dress today. Sometimes I do that." he shrugs "I'm glad that things seem calm. It's rare in life that such happens."

[ostro_goth]

"I am waiting for the other shoe to drop," Teja says. "It never stays calm long."

Pause.

"I sometimes wear different things, but never a dress -- apart from the time when I was in female shape."

[sliceitwithwind]

"It can be fun." Xaldin says with a shrug "So I chose to, today."

[ostro_goth]

"I would not," Teja says. "But then, I need not imitate you in all things."

[sliceitwithwind]

"For one thing" the big man agrees lightly "your hair wouldn't look nearly as awesome as mine does."

[ostro_goth]

"No," Teja says, "and I shall be content with the one hole upon my flesh."

[sliceitwithwind]

Xaldin just grins at him. "Still wearing my chain." he holds the cloth of the dress taut enough that Teja can see the line of chain from piercing to piercing.

[ostro_goth]

"But you no longer need the long, thick coat to keep yourself together," Teja says. "Yes -- I am glad I made it for you; I am glad I took you to my bath, that day, and discovered these; curiosity led me on, and so did my beloved, and now I have one such hole myself -- but only the one!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"It is still far more comfortable." Xaldin says with a shrug "But you are right, I don't need it. Where did you get pierced?"

[ostro_goth]

"On the right side of my chest," Teja says. "It was done in Italy, of the future, in the town near the house that Demeter has given keys to to my Charlie and me."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Very nice." Xaldin says "It's a good first piercing."

Yeah - he expects more to happen eventually.

[ostro_goth]

"You think I would have more?" Teja says.

[sliceitwithwind]

"I think that it's fun and kind of addictive. The pain of the piercing, the pleasure of picking out jewellery and patterns for the body to show it off."