be discreet

[msmage]

It's not much later, in Isabella's room, that she asks:

"So... is Alex really a dom?"

Comments

[catalexis]

"I wear earplugs, they just don't help that much. You figure out how to sleep with headphones on and I will be eternally grateful except not in a way requiring me to do anything."

[mrmage]

"Do you also toss and turn a lot? I'm pretty immobile when I sleep."

[catalexis]

"...No idea. Dunno."

[mrmage]

"Ma'am?" he asks Isabella.

[eclipsi]

"I wake him up, not the other way around. It is possible I have never seen Alex actually asleep when he wasn't really sick, which might affect things."

[mrmage]

"Huh. I suppose you could, like, put a camera somewhere and record yourself sleeping?" he asks Alex.

[catalexis]

"...the point of finding out if I toss and turn would be...?"

[mrmage]

"Finding out if you can sleep with headphones on?"

[catalexis]

"Headphones aren't really comfy even if you don't roll over."

[mrmage]

"Hm. I suppose."

[catalexis]

Shrug. "I get by."

[mrmage]

"Yeah. I wonder if that's something a psion could fix."

[eclipsi]

"Well, I could deafen him at bedtime and fix it in the morning, but it'd be pretty useless as a skill otherwise. Not sure what other angle I'd take."

[mrmage]

"Magic is pretty opaque to me, but this doesn't particularly sound much different than somehow figuring out what counts as nightmares and then making me not have them."

[eclipsi]

"Sure. But I wouldn't be able to do anything else with the skill without advertising to light sleepers that they totally want this service."

[mrmage]

"Hmm, yeah," he sighs.

[eclipsi]

"So, I'll learn it eventually, but after things I can use more often or to learn other things more efficiently."

[mrmage]

"Makes sense. I wish there was something like that for magery."

[eclipsi]

"Poor mages."

[mrmage]

"...I wonder if that's something a psion could also do. Help a mage bootstrap."

[eclipsi]

"Maybe. I mean, I could give someone else an eidetic memory after more work beyond getting my own."

[mrmage]

"I feel like there's all sorts of ways magic could be used in combination like that to get cool effects and the fact that not enough people immortalize themselves and each other stands in the way of that."

[eclipsi]

"Yeah. You need so much time to get anywhere and there are so few eclipsed that we've got to be missing out on amazing synergy."

[mrmage]

"Se-ren-di-pi-ty."

[eclipsi]

Kiss!