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[precedented]

Who: Leto + You
Broadcast: Text
Action: SS Blameless
When: August 4th

So it seems we've returned to enclosed quarters once more. Let's play a game to liven things up.

Who would you fuck, marry or kill on the Fleet?

I suppose to make it even harder, you could limit it to your ship.

Comments

[sandhate]

So you've said.
I just didn't expect it from you

[precedented]

[ That stings. Leto presses down on it. ]

I can be flippant at times.

[sandhate]

That, I'm not surprised about.

[precedented]

Have I troubled you?

[sandhate]

[ a quick reply ]

What
Of course not!

[precedented]

[ Leto relaxes slightly at that. He hadn't realized he had gotten so tense. ]

I am glad then. It is an old game, one friends would play. It helped to take one's mind off other matters.

[sandhate]

I apologize if I gave off that impression.
I really didn't expect it from you.
But I don't know you that well.

[precedented]

Would you like to? I'm always forthcoming.

1/2

[sandhate]

2/2

[sandhate]

Sure this isn't a game?

[precedented]

I would not be offended if the answer is no.

This is not part of the game, if that is what you fear.

[sandhate]

It was a joke

[precedented]

Oh.

I'm less good at those.

[sandhate]

Huh, you mean you can be flippant without jokes?

That was a joke.

[precedented]

Humour varies across time and space. It's easy to be flippant. It's harder to get the joke.

[sandhate]

[ ... ]

I'll give you that. I would add that it's harder to translate it over text as well.

[precedented]

Text is a terrible medium for good humour. But this seemed like the easier way to play the game.

[sandhate]

Who would you choose?

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For the game?

Carnality is no issue for me. [ At least, not yet ] So anyone would do. Marriage, well. I'm afraid I'm not allowed to marry for love.

I despise killing.

But in the spirit of the game?

Fuck: Jim
Marry: Loki
Kill: Myself

Though the last one is a bit of a cheat.

[sandhate]

Last one is definitely cheating.
Why can't you marry for Love?

[precedented]

Politics. Certain alliances must be maintained and encouraged.

No one in my family line could marry for love. My mother was a concubine and my grandmother before her.

That does not mean they were not loved. But marriage wasn't feasible.

[sandhate]

Understood.
I didn't know you were royalty, your Highness.

[ it's probably a joke. ]

[precedented]

Emperor, in fact. A fun job at the age of fifteen.

1/2

[sandhate]

[ ugh ]

[sandhate]

That's the type of fun I don't even want to imagine,