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adamantined December 23 2010, 06:15:45 UTC
Would you give me a hug if I got you under the mistletoe?

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prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:05:22 UTC
We play chess.

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adamantined December 23 2010, 07:06:50 UTC
How often do you guys play chess?

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prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:08:23 UTC
Generally once a week for over six months now.

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adamantined December 23 2010, 07:10:22 UTC
Will you be entertaining visitors at the Palace?

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prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:14:39 UTC
Naturally. The move will not prevent His Imperial Majesty from holding audiences as usual.

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adamantined December 23 2010, 07:17:09 UTC
Good. Mr. Muggles has really been looking forward to hanging out.

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prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:20:06 UTC
Emperors do not hang out.

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adamantined December 23 2010, 07:28:08 UTC
Why not? They probably get bored just laying around being imposing all day.

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prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:30:26 UTC
His Imperial Majesty maintains an extensive physical fitness regimen with the help of his squeaky ball.

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adamantined December 23 2010, 07:31:25 UTC
But even His Imperial Majesty probably wants someone to toss it around and fight over with.

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prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:33:11 UTC
I throw it for him.

[A lot. Almost constantly, in fact. It's nice and mindless and gives him something to think about other than the distinct lack of Mike, even if doing so is probably beginning to wear a dent in the wall by now.]

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private | unhackable adamantined December 23 2010, 07:34:33 UTC
[Which is more or less what she was worried about. She's kicking herself now for being too wrapped up in herself to check on him as much as she would have liked.]

Are you okay, Rudy? I know I ask you a lot, but for as much as you don't want to, I want you to know you can talk to me.

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private | unhackable prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:40:10 UTC
The holiday season has been unusually free of social expectations this year.

[Translation: it's Christmas and he has no family or best friend to accompany him for it. And as much as he may dislike people, it's still slightly depressing to not be forced into all the usual traditions for it.]

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private | unhackable adamantined December 23 2010, 07:45:53 UTC
What are you talking about? You're coming to my apartment on Christmas. Didn't you get the memo?

[It had been on her list of things to do, but she'd been planning on just showing up the day of and dragging him over so that he could not object so easily.]

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private | unhackable prefers_chess December 23 2010, 07:50:46 UTC
That correspondence regrettably went undelivered.

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