A few days later, Arthur gets a message from the twins asking when the four of them can hang out. What does Dayo think?
"Well, yeah, eventually. I'm not, like, married to the idea of being polyamorous—pun intended—but it is my preferred mode."
"Reasonable. I can't say it's a requirement either, but mostly because then our dating pool would shrink and select in a bad way."
"I'm not sure where you got lost, you suddenly stopped talking when the idea of polyamory was suggested so I don't know how much of that you caught."
"I'm not proposing absolutely anything, as we have not had the monogamy conversation yet," he explains. "The conversation starts with 'how do you feel about nonmonogamy?' and goes from there. Positively, by the way, is my answer."
"You mean that we are supposed to accumulate partners as much as we like? Or just an open sexual relationship? How much are we supposed to tell each other?"
"I'm physically incapable of feeling jealousy," he explains. "I don't mind being monogamous, per se, but my preferred mode is polyamorous. What that cashes out to in practice is dependent on my partner or partners, I think, and should probably be decided in more detail depending on what they're comfortable with."
"With the understanding that if we actually start dating other people and figure out it doesn't work that will in fact involve a lot of heartbreak, yeah."
"Well, do you have candidates for a poly relationship?" Felix says, exaggeratedly batting his eyelashes.
He looks at Felix, feigning obliviousness. "Hm? No, not really, this was purely hypothetical."
"Really? That is so bad. If we ever find candidates are we supposed to send them your way?"