"I'm not lying," he says, and runs his hand down Sasha's back, "you're gorgeous."

Ah, that's nice. 

"No, you're gorgeous, I'm a fish skeleton." 

"In Auradon you're considered extremely pretty. Surely you've heard Charlotte's friends making comments."

"Charlotte's friends are not really the sort of person I expect to be sincere about things, and the first comment Charlotte made was about how I shouldn't worry, they'd fatten me up." 

"Well, at any rate, I like the way you look." He runs his hand along Sasha's side.

"Ah — you're sweet." 

Perhaps Asher should show Sasha exactly how sweet he can be.

What a good plan. Asher has such good plans. 

Afterward he says, "I'll look you up next time I'm in town?"

"Sounds good," Sasha says, and kisses him one more time before they go downstairs for lunch. 

"You didn't comment on how I am Ben's best friend and definitely implied I was the help."

"Saying things that sound kind of like starting shit is just a terrible idea, on account of how you are Ben's best friend and could throw me out of a window. Also why would I have done that when I could kiss you instead, that'd be real stupid of me." 

"Is that how VKs think about things?"

"The window thing yes, the kissing thing only some of us." 

"I'm so disappointed that some VKs are immune to my charms."

"Well, the VK who's in the room with you certainly isn't, so." 

Mm. That sounds like a statement that should get Sasha pulled on his lap and kissed.

Sasha wholeheartedly agrees. 

Consider: they don't have to go downstairs for lunch. They can just stay right up here.

That's true. And if they get hungry, it's not like Sasha doesn't have food stockpiled right up here with them.

"I think," he says after a while, "Ben would want me to ask how you're adjusting to Auradon."

He puts his head on Asher's shoulder and doesn't move out of his lap. 

"There's so much food here. I miss my old gang a lot and not knowing anyone is hard and most of the people Charlotte knows don't really want to talk to me and there are still a lot of really confusing things and Fairy Godmother is a fucking idiot, but there's food and it's amazing and literature class is fun and there are books and I don't have to even think about avoiding fights and probably at some point I'll find people who aren't so....." 

"I'm sorry most people are very so and Fairy Godmother is a fucking idiot, we wouldn't have done Remedial Goodness class except that we had to to get you guys over here at all. Any confusing things I can help with?"

"Basically anything and everything about either sex or gender? The rule I've figured out is 'just don't mention it ever, and don't wear skirts' but it would be nice to know anything else." 

"You're not supposed to fuck anybody except your one true love because sex is a special magical thing. Men and women have different roles in most countries in Auradon but what their roles are are different in different places."