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In the morning, Isabella does her best to extricate herself without prematurely waking Adarin. They don't need to leave on anything like a tight schedule.
She's not nearly graceful enough to reliably manage this, of course.
dark_light
prodigal_miser
Adarin has absolutely no idea why that happened. No idea. None.
... He'll have some more food too, now that he thinks about it.
... He'll have some more food too, now that he thinks about it.
kindestgarden
If either of Isabella's parents harbor suspicions, they go unvoiced.
"How did you two meet, anyway?"
"How did you two meet, anyway?"
dark_light
"Believe it or not, I stopped for a picnic in Nowhere, Canada, and he stumbled across me by pure accident. I gave him a lift since he needed to be someplace a little less nowhere for a shopping trip, we got to talking..."
prodigal_miser
"... Then she mentioned her project about immortality and I was kind of hooked," says Adarin, with a smile. "Also, systematic magical testing. That is the way to get to my heart."
dark_light
"But we weren't officially dating for a while. An uncharitable person might describe him as shy."
prodigal_miser
He snickers. "I wanted to treat you like the lady you are and not tackle you and kiss you immediately," he replies primly. "Also, yeah. Shy."
kindestgarden
"Where in the world did you get the idea that witches are ladylike?" inquires Ranata archly.
prodigal_miser
"Not from witches in particular, but I was raised to treat a woman I'm interested in like a lady."
dark_light
"What is even implicated in that rule besides the shyness? What should I be expecting here?"
prodigal_miser
"Presents," he says brightly. "I've thought of two already. One I'm pretty sure you've guessed already, but the other I think you'll definitely like. Also, opening doors for you, not being a jerk, the obvious things."
kindestgarden
"Some people would say it's not very feminist to be opening doors for her just because she's a 'lady', you know."
prodigal_miser
Adarin blinks. Then he says to Ranata, "Well - I come from a noble family of women who are really, really scary when they're angry. My mother was powerful enough that most who knew her did literally everything in their power to keep her as happy as possible. Not to mention my sister, who would almost definitely win in a fight and I'd spend most of it running away as fast as humanly possible. Then, see my girlfriend." He motions to Isabella. "Going to beat death."
He looks very amused. "I have some very, very good reasons to treat all of the women in my life exceptionally nicely."
He looks very amused. "I have some very, very good reasons to treat all of the women in my life exceptionally nicely."
dark_light
"When you learned the word 'feminism' what did you learn it meant?" Isabella inquires of Adarin.
prodigal_miser
"That... It was about women equaling men in power?" he says, confused. "Did I get an incorrect translation? Or am I missing something?"
dark_light
"Missing a large political movement. I don't know that much about it because it was primarily a mortals thing, but yeah. There's some subtleties."
kindestgarden
"Okay, I'm stumped - what places don't have so much as an inkling of feminism as a political movement?"