be discreet

[msmage]

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

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

Comments

[mrmage]

"The Mongolian Empire sounds way cooler, though."

[eclipsi]

"If I wind up in a position to break the impasse I'm likelier to go for Chinese pirates. Less done to death than the Khan."

[mrmage]

"Fair enough. Was it the pirates that found America a ways back?"

[eclipsi]

"...I don't know, was it?"

[mrmage]

"I think I read something about that, Asian ships having discovered America way before Columbus did."

[eclipsi]

"Huh. I don't know if it was pirates but that seems sort of unlikely."

[mrmage]

"Might've been some conspiracy theory, then."

[eclipsi]

"Or something. Maybe we'll do the project on pirates and I can find out."

[mrmage]

"See, you have a new argument to present to the Khan one."

[eclipsi]

Giggle.

[mrmage]

"When's the due date?"

[eclipsi]

"Six weeks."

[mrmage]

"Is it complex enough that you need those weeks?"

[eclipsi]

"To do the project, no, to come to any sort of consensus on it, probably."

[mrmage]

"...maybe you and the non-annoying person could do something yourselves?"

[eclipsi]

"Maybe, but the professor might check up on the cooperation aspect," she sighs.

[mrmage]

"Yeah, that sounds really annoying." Pause. "You could perhaps out-dom the other two."

[eclipsi]

"For a school project? Eugh, that would be weird. One of them isn't even a dom."

[mrmage]

Shrug. "How do you expect either of them to react if you and the other person without preferences both decide to side with one of the options and outnumber the other?"

[eclipsi]

"Dunno. Might make a fuss with the teacher about us being overbearing, might refuse to do any work, might grumble and go along with it."

[mrmage]

"Well... those three require very different approaches," he muses.

[eclipsi]

"Yep. Group fucking projects."

[mrmage]

"Hmm, I don't know, I'd find it interesting to try to juggle them and see if I couldn't make them agree and be happy with it."

[eclipsi]

"I suppose you could look at it like that but the existence of this fascinating challenge in the first place is frustrating."

[mrmage]

"Well, sure, it's not the kind of interesting challenge I'd create in the first place, I think."