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[boutant]

Do you know what they call French kissing in France?

[ Of course you don't. That's why Ariadne is going to tell you. ]

There are a few different names for it -- "baiser profond", or deep kiss; "baiser avec la langue", or kiss with the tongue; and "baiser amoureux", or love kiss. In Austria, French kissing is slang for oral.

Any questions?

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[invisibilities]

You're welcome.

[ he smiles back. ]

What kind of buildings do you want to build?

[boutant]

[ Impossible ones. ]

Anything really challenging. Creative things. I don't want to design cookie-cutter houses.

[invisibilities]

[ if she'd been in the storm, she'd probably have gotten an amazing power, simon suspects. ]

Will you do it here, do you think?

[boutant]

I'd like to. Apparently I've redesigned places here, not that I remember it.

[ There's a slight frown at that, but then she shakes her head. ]

[invisibilities]

Why don't you remember?

[boutant]

That happens sometimes if you disappear from here and then come back.

[invisibilities]

I didn't forget.

[ he sounded faintly puzzled by that. no one had mentioned that yet, that he could remember. ]

[boutant]

My roommate didn't either. Not everyone does.

[ She shakes her head. ]

I don't think anyone knows why it happens to some people at some times and not to others at other times.

[invisibilities]

This place doesn't make sense, most of the time.

[ that much simon has been able to determine from his rather short stays. ]

[boutant]

[ There's a laugh. ]

Yeah, that's definitely true.