Do you always sit back and merely wait for astonishment to drop in your lap without any input from yourself?
[ That's right, he's calling Astarion out. Thrilled as he is to continue the world's tiniest book club, he refuses to do all of the work himself. This is now a two-way street, whether Astarion wants it to be or not. Gale is stubborn enough to make it so. ]
You've clearly... opinions, however lukewarm. Surely you can help guide me in the right direction by sharing a few more.
[ It's the least he can do. You know, after the whole 'fine' debacle. ]
What is it that you like to partake in? Tales of dashing warriors? Bloody revenge? Perhaps all this time you've hidden a predilection for romance. [ No, he imagines not. ]
Mostly. There wasn't a lot of time for the investigation of one's own astonishment, before.
[ He's trying not to dwell too much on the whole "stuck in a mansion for two hundred years at the mercy of a sire who used him as a sexual object to lure food back for him to feast upon" aspect of his history, but it is difficult not to.
Scoffing a little noise, Astarion waves a hand. As if he would read something as pedestrian as romance. ]
Adventure, I suppose. Intrigue, something with a little bite to it. Romance is all well and good when you're not living it on a day-to-day basis.
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Do you always sit back and merely wait for astonishment to drop in your lap without any input from yourself?
[ That's right, he's calling Astarion out. Thrilled as he is to continue the world's tiniest book club, he refuses to do all of the work himself. This is now a two-way street, whether Astarion wants it to be or not. Gale is stubborn enough to make it so. ]
You've clearly... opinions, however lukewarm. Surely you can help guide me in the right direction by sharing a few more.
[ It's the least he can do. You know, after the whole 'fine' debacle. ]
What is it that you like to partake in? Tales of dashing warriors? Bloody revenge? Perhaps all this time you've hidden a predilection for romance. [ No, he imagines not. ]
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[ He's trying not to dwell too much on the whole "stuck in a mansion for two hundred years at the mercy of a sire who used him as a sexual object to lure food back for him to feast upon" aspect of his history, but it is difficult not to.
Scoffing a little noise, Astarion waves a hand. As if he would read something as pedestrian as romance. ]
Adventure, I suppose. Intrigue, something with a little bite to it. Romance is all well and good when you're not living it on a day-to-day basis.
[ His version of it, at least. ]