week four | dates

[marriagebroker]

Get dressed up, go on the town, this is your last week for romance!

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[ordimame]

[SHE'S SUCH A KIND AUNT. . . HE APPRECAITES HER SO MUCH]

[with a HEAVY sigh]

It'll be worth it. . . to see sights that I would never be able to see back home.

[it'll be worth it to spend more time with her, but that part he isn't saying aloud]

[researcherstory]

I wonder. A freelancer like yourself must travel often, doesn't he?

[ He's probably seen all and more... well, he'll be really surprised to see so much of the sky maybe, given the lack of pollution of all kind in her world, but it isn't like he'll have anyone to talk about it. ]

[ordimame]

. . . it's the nature of the job. Depending on where it takes me.

[his tiny smile is a bit. . . wistful]

You'll come to my world sometime too, right? And travel there with me?

[researcherstory]

[ Hmmm. Something she'll keep in mind. The request gives her pause though, something warm in her chest, and Odile focuses on ahead. What is his game here... ]

The culture shock might just kill me, but yes, I will. [ ... ] If that's what you'd like.

[ She'd be more than happy to, really. But. That is being a little too sappy. And she will not be that. ]

[ordimame]

You're tougher than that, Odile.

[said with LIGHT humor]

And of course I'd like it. Who asks for something they wouldn't like?

[he will let her dodge the sappiness for today and today only]

[researcherstory]

[ Well, she'll give him that!!! You don't ask for things you wouldn't like, and... this show has given her time to acclimate a bit to. Modernity. In some senses. So it won't be that bad, certainly something she can handle.

...

Still makes her feel A Way but she can shove that down and return it in small amounts. ]

The overly polite. What will you be praying for, Edamura?

[ordimame]

I'm not overly polite.

[says the guy trying Way Too Hard on week one. he can, indeed, be overly polite]

And I'm praying for good fortune. Not for the match ceremony, but for everything that comes after.

[researcherstory]

With your next job and... "business arrangement" you have with Rom?

[ She is spiritually waggling her eyebrows. ]

[ordimame]

[. . . he can hear those quotation marks]

Not just for me! For everyone here, Odile.

[researcherstory]

[ As he should. She was bullying Rom on Monday. ]

Then I shall follow your example with my own, where fortune is concerned anyway. I don't believe anyone else is planning to put their experiences here to paper.

[ordimame]

[not rising to the bait today!!]

Then that means it's up to us.

[folds his arms. nodnods. like it's a heavy burden, or something?]

[researcherstory]

[ it's cause he got laid huh ]

...

[ Does he even-- ]

Are you planning on writing a book as well, Edamura? Because that is what I mean by paper.

[ HER THREE EXPRESSIONS... ]

[ordimame]

[REDACTED]

Writing a book sounds. . . [LIKE A LOT OF WORK. . .] So no. I guess I was thinking about the paper the fortunes were written on.

[researcherstory]

Memoirs are far less work than you'd think, given they're of a personal nature. It's useful for self-reflection too.

[ So maybe he should write one too. But she gestures with her hand. Fortunes in a second, first... ]

Age before beauty, young man. Send your prayers to the gods you've neglected and hope they still have an ear to turn to your pleas.

[ordimame]

[pulls a coin from his pocket and winks]

It might have been a while, but I remember!

[and he will go ahead and slip that coin into the offering box]