[IC] Day 83, during the game

[thexfactor]

[ dateee ]

Comments

[grandstanding]

Fair enough.

[thexfactor]

We'll work on it.

[grandstanding]

Yes, I'm sure you will. Your team seems to get along well enough.

[thexfactor]

We tend to.

[grandstanding]

[considering the board, eating another sandwich.]

I need to talk things over with Epona again. With our newer members, things have changed.

[thexfactor]

New alliances? We had Amalthea come over to confirm it with us.

[grandstanding]

I actually went to speak with Amalthea about something similar. But it's more... sitting down and outlining who we know. Because Knives and Snow aren't likely to know these things.

Yours is the only formal alliance we have.

[thexfactor]

We didn't have any formal ones either. Though we might have one with Gulgullana now. I should speak to Hank about it. . . and Heels had a few.

[grandstanding]

Yes, Hank... I haven't spoken to Gulgalanna since Pikarin went to sleep.

[and he didn't speak to her much then, either.]

I don't think Epona will want much to do with alliances as we know them. That was more necessary in the library.

[thexfactor]

Mmm. And the situation is less intense for sure.

[grandstanding]

It is. But it's something my team doesn't talk about enough.

[because they don't talk in seriousness enough]

[thexfactor]

Neither does mine. The perils of being an adult, I imagine.

[grandstanding]

I don't think adulthood has much to do with it, really.

[thexfactor]

Then what do you think it is?

[grandstanding]

[he moves another piece on the board.]

A lack of closeness... differing opinions.

[thexfactor]

Your team adores you, Erik.

[grandstanding]

Star and Flame might.

[and that's quite the admission, coming from him.]

The others don't. In any case, adoration isn't the issue.

[thexfactor]

I guess it'll work out.

[grandstanding]

I'll make sure it does.

[thexfactor]

Mmm. I know.

[grandstanding]

[takes another piece, in silence]

[thexfactor]

It'll work out, Erik.

[grandstanding]

Yes, I know.

[thexfactor]

[ takes his hand, kissing his knuckles ]

[grandstanding]

[he extends his fingers, moving them to cover Charles's cheek.]

I'm not upset. Just thinking.