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[weeper_of_blood]

There's a booth occupied by an extremely tetchy mathematician who's left leg has a serious case of the jitters. It might have something to do with the inhaler he's been taking far too frequently, but luckily he's now onto cigarettes

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[chemist_rani]

Just by chance, another glare (this one just as permanent though somewhat more irritated) happens to meet with his glare.

[chemist_rani]

"I don't have a companion at the moment," she says, her eyes running along the datastreams flying across the screen on her 'pad, "and I take one rarely. Whereas the Doctor collects them like children's toys, I have a higher standard."

[weeper_of_blood]

Had he not already known the sort of man the Doctor was, he wouldn't be thinking too highly of him now anyway.

"I would get considerably bored of having to stay with the same person for long periods at a time. Sometimes the best sort of company is your own," he considers with that smirk returning, finally making a move to approach just a little closer.

[chemist_rani]

"It certainly improves the quality," she answers with a smirk of her own.

[weeper_of_blood]

"Though the conversation can be a little lacking, at times. At least there's rarely a disagreement." Except for the times when you decide to argue with yourself, which can be quite often in Chiffre's world. Sometimes even his own company annoys him.

[chemist_rani]

"The lack of conversation is often worth the lack of idiocy. There's very few I find it a pleasure to converse with."

Her tone says she's not sure of him.

[weeper_of_blood]

"And even less you can bear to be in the presence of, I assume?" He questions, head tilting with a curious arch of a brow.

[chemist_rani]

"I can bear quite a lot. I merely choose not to most of the time. It's not as if I don't have plenty of work to do."

She raises an eyebrow in return.

"Do you keep yourself busy, then? Even dead as you are?"

[weeper_of_blood]

Le Chiffre shrugs a shoulder half-hearted in his response.

"I try, at least. Teaching, these days, mostly. Got to keep the mind working somehow."

[chemist_rani]

"And what do you teach? What, exactly, is your area of knowledge?"

[weeper_of_blood]

"Mathematics. Teaching it to children isn't exactly the level I tend to enjoy, but simply dealing with numbers is enough for now." And he'd have hardly believed he'd actually quite enjoy teaching kids a year ago.

"And what of yourself?"

[chemist_rani]

"I'm a chemist, specifically a biochemist with a specialty in neurochemistry," she tells him with a faint smile. Why the smile is anyone's guess.

"Mathematics is a worthy enough field, however."

[weeper_of_blood]

"Ah, the fields of science," comes his fond reply, gaining a smile that may be classed as verging on the creepy side.

"I was always of biology, myself, when I wasn't dealing with figures and sums."