Robert Bentley - Stoicheion OC - Pandimensional setting of your choosing

[mm_danii]

He's sitting quietly, smiling in a faint, elegant sort of way into the pages of a book. His fingers, pale and graceful, turn the pages once.

Twice.

His focus is utterly upon the text as a mysterious twist of his lips curls and uncurls, his figure a portrait of refinement and poise.

Then he snorts.

"Oh please. Poor dork."...a complicated

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[mm_noni]

An eyebrow raise of vague interest.

"Is it really so engrossing?"

[outshinetheday]

He nods.

"I played the part of Amintor in this play a rather long time ago," he says with a fond smile at the play. "Have you read 'The Maid's Tragedy'?"

[mm_noni]

A slight upturn of the lips.

"Not for some time."

[outshinetheday]

"It is a favorite," he says with a smile of his own. "I've always loved it for the way it handles perception and truth."

[mm_noni]

"I suppose it is one of the better stories of the time, if you are in the mood for murder/suicide. Too much romance tends to drag things a bit... but most Jacobean fiction had that problem."

[outshinetheday]

"I think that the point of the story is to be found not in the deaths but in the lives lived by the characters," he says. "And the romance is a driving force, not only for good but for violence. It's a rather deft examination of desire, judgement, and self-truth."