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The capital is boring.
Why is the capital boring? It's the capital! It should have interesting people in it! But noo, everyone she's met so far has been an idiot. Mostly not even an entertaining idiot, just a boring idiot who thinks she should be impressed by their whatever, like, no, in order to impress her you can start by not being an idiot.
On the plus side, the party has free booze, so that's nice.
"Pretty good! I'm definitely conversational in Ansati, now, I think coming up on fluent. Hard to say, I've never learned a language before."
"Also," she says, also in Ansati, "I talked to Iri, and she thinks there's something you and Anlei aren't telling us. If you say it's none of my business I won't bother you about it anymore, but..."
"...Seriously, I can refrain from prying if you need me to. ...But if you're reacting like that it might be better to lance the metaphorical boil."
"I don't know," he sighs. "I don't know if she wouldn't want me to say anything; I don't know if I want to talk about it..."
"Okay. I'll drop it. If you want to talk about it you can let me know and meanwhile I won't bring it up."
Snuggle. "Is there anything I could do that would be less ambiguously helpful?"
Yes. Those things. Whatever else is going on, he still appreciates Siva so very much.
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