11th Letter; video

[hisdiscretion]

[There's a sort of yanking motion as the NV turns on and starts recording. It's a bedroom, neatly kept and elegant, with a big, comfy bed, rumpled with a rather familiar dark-haired, noticeably unclothed and dozing. The voice (and the slight glow originating from behind the NV) is recognizable as Franz d'Epinay's. Cultured, precise, and more than

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[Video]

[dr_byronorpheus]

Congratulations on your BLOSSOMING RELATIONSHIP!

[Slightly muttered to himself.] Assuming the boy is legal in Canada.

[Video, yep, please do ignore the flustering man in the corner]

[gaveherwings]

[Eight months, please don't do the math, no one do the math...]

[hisdiscretion]

[Such a big grin.]

17 is legal in Siren's Port!

[dr_byronorpheus]

While I understand your enthusiasm, you might want to be more discreet in the future to avoid sending your boyfriend into a nervous fit. [It's hard to ignore the flustering man in the corner.]

[hisdiscretion]

But it's so cute when he gets all upset! [Then he frowns a little.] And he's always like, oh, it's really no one else's business... People at his job won't even believe we're buying a condo together. They're surprised he's in a relationship.

[dr_byronorpheus]

Well, I'm sure he'll be quite the talk of the office tomorrow.

[hisdiscretion]

I'm sure they'll be jealous of me. His co-workers have always been quite fond of him.

[dr_byronorpheus]

And what did you do to win him over these other admirers?

[hisdiscretion]

--Sexed him up, of course! [pause, and in the interest of not sounding too shallow--]

And got to know him and such too. He's a really great guy.

[dr_byronorpheus]

[Orpheus should have expected that, really, given everything else about this post on the network, but the bluntness is still surprising and he just stares for a moment. A fatherly thought kicks in.]

And seeing as he's a doctor, I trust you're doing everything as, er, safely as possible?

[hisdiscretion]

Yes, of course. [eyerolling here]

Why do you care?

[dr_byronorpheus]

Because young men - and I include your doctor in this category as well - far too often appear to think themselves immortal and untouchable. Yet while I am able to manipulate souls, there is no magic I wield that will ease THE BURNING OF VENEREAL DISEASE.

[hisdiscretion]

[laughing]

We're very careful, I promise. If it were up to him I'd go outside in a helmet and an inch-thick layer of sunblock, safe sex is not an issue.

Besides, we're monogamous, and I got tested after my last partner.

[dr_byronorpheus]

Sunblock or no, it sounds like you're being mature and responsible.

If I could only feel so secure about the young men who I am sure are making eyes at my Pumpkin in my absence.

[hisdiscretion]

Not according to him, I'm not, what with the recording and embarrassing him horribly and all. [siiiigh]

You have a daughter my age, right? Straight boys are the worst.

[dr_byronorpheus]

Yes, right around your age. Although I was always a studious boy, I have enough firsthand memories of the horrors of adolescent males and their hormones to be properly concerned.