week four | dates

[marriagebroker]

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

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[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]

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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]