The question-and-answer aspect of the nexus has always entertained Martel - mostly because he's a sick bastard who enjoys other people making idiots of themselves now and then - but it's been a very rare occasion that he'd indulge himself, and rarer still that he'd indulge it stone cold sober.
He'd like very much not to be stone cold sober,
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Martel's eyebrow raises. "Specific how?"
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"I might, but I don't think any situations I might have in mind are relevant to what your opinion of the words happens to be," Martel says, diplomatically. "What do you think it depends on?"
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Why no, Hestia is not answering that question - not unless Martel turns solely to her for it, and she doubts he ever will. She wouldn't be any help to someone who sought the answer, anyway; it is, in her divine opinion, mortals should decide for themselves.
Perhaps why she is at the Agora: to observe the questions and answers mortals have for each other.
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"A combination of boredom and curiosity, my lady," he says, smiling and not pressing the fact she hasn't answered; he isn't likely to cop to the personal nature of it out loud, particularly when he suspects she can guess why the subject might be on his mind, as it were. "May I greet you?"
There's an added layer of respect in that question, a weight to it; ritualistic.
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Until this point, Martel has been sitting down - on a stool at the front of the amphitheatre - but when she offers her hands, he rises.
...and then he kneels, taking one knee at her feet, and kisses her palms one after the other; his own hands are roughened by the nature of his work but perhaps surprisingly gentle, capable of care. It's a simple ritual and one that he's fond of (both for honest reasons and reasons of 'charming the ladies'), but it's been a long time since anyone has given him a blessing.
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It's really quite spectacular hair.
"A sliding scale of morality." ...Martel is making a joke, it's just that it's hideous and inappropriate.
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"I'm sure there are backsliders." Martel, for example, should probably not be allowed as much free reign as he has- not that he's backsliding, mind you, but how easy would it be if he did?
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