be discreet

[msmage]

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

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

Comments

[eclipsi]

"I mean, people specialize different amounts. It's kind of arbitrary that there is a popular amount for 'earth, air, fire, and water' and not a popular amount for 'magnetism, radioactive metals, grass, and mollusks' but she's not going to learn slower by specializing, she will learn fewer things faster."

[mrmage]

"...mollusks," he snorts.

[eclipsi]

"Mollusks!"

[mrmage]

"That might be about the most useless thing one could specialize on."

[eclipsi]

"Well, it probably depends on what you wind up doing with the mollusks, but if I were a mage it wouldn't be my first or thirtieth choice, no."

[mrmage]

"What would?"

[eclipsi]

"I'd go for healing and immortality first and then probably utility grade teekay after that."

[mrmage]

"So, basically, the same thing I'm doing."

[eclipsi]

"Rather, yes, without the detour at shapeshifting, I like how I look just fine."

[mrmage]

"Good, that makes two of us."

[eclipsi]

Kiss.

[mrmage]

Kisss!

"Although I bet a boy you would also be really hot."

[eclipsi]

"I'd probably just look like Alex."

[mrmage]

"Well, Alex is pretty hot, too, and the cane can only help..."

[eclipsi]

Snort.

[mrmage]

"But I don't know that you'd look like him, you two aren't that physically similar."

[eclipsi]

"Yeah, I guess. I can't say I've ever given it much thought what I'd look like."

[mrmage]

"...I have. A little."

[eclipsi]

"Have you."

[mrmage]

"Well, when we met, you said you had a twin, and I thought, I wonder what a boy Isabella would look like, and then I was like, surely Alex looks nothing like a boy version of her, there's no reason for him to, but then my mind imagined two of you at the same time, and it went lovely places."

[eclipsi]

"Ha."

[mrmage]

"I do wonder how you'd deal with another you, though. My mind keeps going, unstoppable force, meet unmovable object."

[eclipsi]

"I think we could cooperate. Probably not in the ways you were fantasizing about, but still."

[mrmage]

"Aww, really? Because that'd be lovely."

[eclipsi]

"I said cooperate. Not share."