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[brobeforehos]

All right, here's a poll I've been postponing. Raise your hand if you've at some point in your lives - long or short - felt a dangerous and inexplicable attraction towards the tall, dark, and handsome. I'm very keen to note whether it's one of those disorders that affect people regardless of gender, or not.

Bonus points will be given if they solve their problems with fire, or are emotional walls.

I'll start - yes.

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[ooc; No curse, just curiosity.]

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[brobeforehos]

I bet you winced saying it.

[There's a pause.] We've eaten together before. I remember coffee and ice-cream, actually. [Is she being deliberately obtuse? You betcha.]

[intheblanks]

Right, practically the first time we spoke. I'd ask if familiarity bred contempt, except that might sound like I was still holding out for a date. Which, we've established, I'm not.

[brobeforehos]

Yes, we've established. And of course it doesn't - familiarity breeds trust.

[intheblanks]

I know a surprising number of people you can't be familiar with.

[Joke deflection because she can't be talking about him.]

[brobeforehos]

[Slow clap.] By familiarity I meant friendship.

[intheblanks]

Oh. Maybe it's not my area of expertise.

[brobeforehos]

You haven't got friends?

1/3

[intheblanks]

Of course I have friends.

[intheblanks]

[Seriously, Mae. What? Tch.]

I have friends.

[intheblanks]

Just not... hundreds of them.

[The best man at his wedding flew in from Australia and he sees the guy maybe once every two years. Lets leave it at that.]

[brobeforehos]

Neither do I. And don't be offended, you just said it wasn't your area of expertise, so I tried to gauge which one. If it's not friendship, is it trust?

1/2

[intheblanks]

No, it's not trust.

[He's really the one not to be trusted, in his opinion.]

[intheblanks]

Maybe I just think a friend's someone you can forgive if they screw you over.

[brobeforehos]

As opposed to?

[intheblanks]

Trusting that they never will.

[brobeforehos]

Ah. That's not realistic. Hoping that they never will might be more likely a better choice. There are different ways in which to trust someone.

[intheblanks]

Degrees of trust? I'd go along with that.

[brobeforehos]

Course you'd go with degrees of something.

[intheblanks]

What's that supposed to mean?

[brobeforehos]

Doctor - degrees?

[intheblanks]

Academic, angles, coordinates or temperature?

[brobeforehos]

Either of them, it's poetic. Anyway, yes, degrees of trust.

[intheblanks]

What's your favourite poem?

[brobeforehos]

Noooo...

[intheblanks]

Come on. You're a librarian, evangelising on behalf of literature comes with the job, doesn't it?