[accidental video] mere mortals watched them fly

[bedsidemanners]

[Have a look at Raphael's tiny, mostly unnecessary kitchen. It's in a slight amount of disarray, with various groceries haphazardly lining what little space exists, and liquid dripping out of the base of a blender, down the countertop and to the floor.]

[Interestingly enough there are no dirty dishes.]

[Raphael's back is to the camera as he first glances at, then leans out the window, grumbling at the view. Or views. He doesn't wave back at the bathers, slamming the window shut.]

The one time I'm really not in the mood for hot springs.

[and as he grabs a sponge, he notices the device]

Oh, fantastic.

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[shall_yield_us]

Nor I. She's rather... ugly, isn't she? I'd always thought, well, my love, the satan of lust - surely there must be something there, hmmm? Something to lead all men into temptation, all... angels. And then the truth of it turns out to be rather anticlimactic. I'm more beautiful, aren't I?

[bedsidemanners]

... It's not much of a compliment. Anything at all is more beautiful than that creature.

[shall_yield_us]

Come, now, no need to begrudge your superior for Falling...

[bedsidemanners]

You know that's not even half of what I'm begrudging.

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[shall_yield_us]

...do I. I can't imagine what in the world else might be at stake.

[shall_yield_us]

Raphael, be vulgata and vulgar for me for a moment. Can you manage?

[bedsidemanners]

It's easy to manage what you always are, isn't it?

[shall_yield_us]

Oh, I shouldn't know, it's said my very nature is inconstancy.

But tell me, O Raphael: is she a good... lay? I should think, if nothing else, to earn her name, her rank, then surely...?

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[bedsidemanners]

[a long, long pause, before finally]

How dare you.

[bedsidemanners]

You think you're asking me something I haven't heard before. As if it hasn't been rubbed in my face for centuries. But you haven't got the right any more than they did.

[shall_yield_us]

Has it occurred to you... I might genuinely be curious?

[bedsidemanners]

Your curiosity can rot along with the rest of you.

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[sealegs]

Not even for all the naked, wet, attractive people out there?

[shall_yield_us]

...ah. Cruelty at long last. I didn't think you'd wear it so well.

[bedsidemanners]

I have nothing more to say to you.

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[bedsidemanners]

I'm taking a very temporary break.

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[sealegs]

Running low on fuel?

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[dignity_misery]

[Her hands rest loosely between her knees as her feet stir.]

A few. More interesting that I knew them, than just happenstance.

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[bedsidemanners]

Oh? Did they strike you as prudish before?

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[dignity_misery]

Prudes wouldn't have lured me down here.

[She'd have just stayed in and carried on being miserable.]

Skin is only really interesting when you can touch it.

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[bedsidemanners]

Low on libido.

Although I'm sure even just the sight of a woman like you is enough to raise it again.

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[bedsidemanners]

Not a voyeur at all? I'm almost disappointed.

[He takes another swallow, the taste cloyingly sweet as he leans in slightly.]

Or is that an invitation?

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[dignity_misery]

[That makes her laugh softly, and she turns her head towards him, voice lowering.]

I think I'm too demanding for you, Raphael. But I can watch, if I'm interested in who I'm watching.

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[bedsidemanners]

Nonsense. I've never met anyone too demanding for me.

[... well, if he had, they were promptly abandoned. he considers for a moment, then takes off his shoes and rolls up his pants legs before dipping his feet into the water.]

What would that take? Your interest, I mean.

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[dignity_misery]

Self-awareness. Self-sufficiency. Cleverness, cruelty. Or the potential to eke out all of the above.

[She lifts her drink to her mouth before offering,]

You've been interesting.