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In what has become a common occurrence, Bella and Celo are hanging out in the hall kitchen, eating something Celo has baked (today: blueberry handpies).
"How's the squinting coming along?" Bella asks, after she has finished her first and is contemplating a second.
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That is okay. It is a tasty pie.
While they are enjoying their tasty pies, one of their hallmates - Corrine, the girl who spoke with Celo in the lounge the day he and Bella met - sidles into the kitchen. Celo grins and offers her a pie. She grins and takes it, along with a comfortable seat in his lap. He wraps his arms around her waist and tucks her shoulder under his chin.
"Hi," he says affectionately. "Do you guys know each other?"
While they are enjoying their tasty pies, one of their hallmates - Corrine, the girl who spoke with Celo in the lounge the day he and Bella met - sidles into the kitchen. Celo grins and offers her a pie. She grins and takes it, along with a comfortable seat in his lap. He wraps his arms around her waist and tucks her shoulder under his chin.
"Hi," he says affectionately. "Do you guys know each other?"
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"We've met, yeah," says Bella, "I don't think we have any classes together or anything."
Corrine shakes her head. "No, I'm in design and Domestic Arts," she says. "You're sutble arts, right? Mm, Celo, this is really good."
"I know," Celo says cheerfully, still snuggling her. "I'll give you the recipe later."
"I know," Celo says cheerfully, still snuggling her. "I'll give you the recipe later."
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"Subtle arts," agrees Bella, nodding. She is still nibbling on the second of her pies.
Corrine beams. "You're my favourite," she says to Celo, giving him a one-armed hug because her other hand has a pie in it.
"I know," Celo repeats, grinning.
"I know," Celo repeats, grinning.
Cuddly!
"Anyway," Corrine says to Bella, "what's subtle arts like? I bet you don't make a lot of pies. That must be terrible."
"Anyway," Corrine says to Bella, "what's subtle arts like? I bet you don't make a lot of pies. That must be terrible."
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"I don't make a lot of pies, no. I can cook some but I'm not as good at it or as serious about it as Celo. Mostly I learn about minds and how to poke them."
Corrine giggles. "It sounds really funny when you put it like that," she says. "Is it hard?"
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"Some of it is. I'm not very good at telekinesis, for instance. Most of the rest of it is just like - learning to orient myself in an unfamiliar location, over and over until unfamiliar locations aren't."
"Oh," says Corrine. She doesn't seem like she understood that very well, but she also doesn't seem like she's bothered by it. She nibbles on her pie. Celo cuddles her.
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Bella finishes her pie, decides against taking a third, and starts on a set of flashcards, glancing at the cuddling pair now and again.
The cuddling pair continue to cuddle! Celo has his eyes closed and a happy smile on his face. Corrine looks generally contented, especially once she starts on her second pie.
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They don't seem to be absconding - or for that matter not absconding - to go have sex. Huh.
Eventually, Corinne finishes pie number two and flops her head onto Celo's shoulder, closing her eyes. He hugs her. She appears to nap.
Yeah, she does that, he says fondly.
He nods, smiling.
It iiiiis, he agrees. She's a sweetheart, I love her. 'Love' here apparently meaning 'want to snuggle with a lot'.
Aww is right! Aww is the correct response here!
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Bella finishes her deck of flashcards, and then peers at them again, and then departs the room to do some thinking.