Jeremy pulls a wooden chair up next to the bed and sits down on it, somewhat abruptly.  "You can use the bed."

Oh no what did he do wrong.

"Okay."

He does that.

"I'm a gentleman," Jeremy asserts.

That doesn't explain what Lucien did wrong.

Laptop. Right. Lucien should get that out.

Jeremy watches the process of laptop extraction while noting, "I'm not just going to—I didn't think you would want me to, to also be on my bed?  This soon?"

Lucien squeaks in splutter.

"So.  This is fine, for now."  He scoots the chair to be more properly parallel to the bed.  And puts a hand on Lucien's.

...

Lucien. Will squeeze back. 

...And place his laptop on his lap real quickly.

Jeremy politely focuses on the laptop screen.

Thankfully for Lucien's ability to form coherent thoughts, he doesn't notice Jeremy noticing anything.

Lucien logs in and finds the 'The_Pirates_of_a_Distant_Land.mp4'. 

"So heads up that it's not... good? It's not entirely bad either. It's very obvious that something like half the people making it really cared about the source material. Unfortunately that didn't include the editors. Or the marketing team, clearly. But when it's still better than no adaptation, I think. Not everyone agrees."

"Noted.  I'll keep an open mind."

And Lucien presses play.

He's mostly engrossed enough in what's happening in it to not freak out over holding Jeremy's hand, except during one of the desert scenes cut together using B-roll to pad the movie. He mostly spends that bit being nervous about whether his hand is too sweaty but eventually things start happening again on screen. 

"So, yeah. What do you think?"

"It's... really something.  I'm glad I got the chance to watch it with you.  The bit where—did they just cut the book two duel scene into the middle?  And set it on a pirate ship?  That was...fascinating."

"I think the actor they got to play Eresin for that was great and clearly knew his way around the character and managed to get that across even if he was only in that one scene. But yeah, would have been nicer to get more of him. And not on a pirate ship."

"Were they planning to make movies of the whole series, and just already filmed that part and threw it in because they had it?  But then why was it on a pirate ship...  Book one is the pirate ship book, if, y'know, any of them are."

"I think the director planning to incorporate bits of it in to Marlan's prophetic dream of conquest and then have it appear it again in a second movie in its entirety. Which, I think is actually really clever."

"Huh, yeah, I can see that.  And I did really like Eresin too—he looks really different from how I'd imagined him; it took me a bit to recognize him.  Same with Thenia.  And I do appreciate they put someone who was very obviously Gildas in the background of scenes he totally didn't belong in; that was a nice bonus."

"Oh huh, I actually didn't like that bit, but I guess I see where the director was coming from."

"Oh, I thought you would.  To me it was kind of like, y'know, his presence is felt throughout the books, but you don't really see him, and this felt like—kind of the same thing, just in a movie way.  But I guess you like him because of the detail and admittedly this version didn't really have that."

"A lot of people said it humanized him and made him feel more like a real character and I guess that sort of irked me since I feel like those people are missing the point of his tables. I guess this isn't actually a good reason to dislike the inclusion on its own merits."

"But he only showed up in the background!"

"Which is too much. I think Gildas' should only show up in person in the scribe's lecture hall and to give testimony at the embezzlement trial. Anything else distracts from his work and I'm sure he'd agree."

"Pffft.  Surely he has a house, at least.  Or, quarters.  Of some sort."

"He travels a bunch, just only after the plot has already happened."

And because Lucien can't help himself:

"... Also yes I think he has a house because based on the merchant records he has access to he probably spends a lot of time near the Shen Academy and there is one bit where he talks about changes in the prices of window glass that comes off as personal experience. So probably he owns a place near there."

"You're really...  I like you."