[Does he want another mysterious Blue, the big question. He probably shouldn't - surely Viktor does not deserve to endure him drunk, whatever that may look like, but at the same time, what more appropriate venue is there to test the effects of alcohol on one's body? He's celebrating, but he's also working, lowkey.
That, and the longer they have drinks in front of them, the longer they can prolong this little outing - which Palamedes finds he is inclined to do, brief dip in the mood and everything. They live together, true, they share a workspace, also true, but they can't repeatedly discuss hobbies and outings being good ideas and then not do them, yes? This is well outside any wheelhouse Palamedes may lay claim to, but it's fun. It's worth it.]
I could have another, [he says, and even chuckles lightly at 'time honored in matters such as these.' Bonding, definitely; it is, actually, but he still reserves the right to point out the ridiculousness of it.]
You sounded... thorough, [is what he has to say to the wild secret lecture hall tryst gambit (tm), and it sounds more suggestive than he means "thorough" to sound, but, ah, oops. It was the gambit!] If he'd come in I might have panicked and thrown a wastebasket at him, so thank you for your sacrifice.
['Twas very noble, and so on and so forth. He can't help the pinprick of fondness he feels when he catches Viktor's blushing, endeared - and reminded at once that, aha, even with near-nudity clubs in the undercity, the Sixth's grand mission to give its hardest battles to its sexiest soldiers (paraphrased) is another weird Sixth thing he's been desensitized to.]
The whole thing sounds like it belongs in a novel, you know, [he wiggles his fingers; a sexy novel.] The Arcane Scholar's Flight of Fancy, something like that.
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That, and the longer they have drinks in front of them, the longer they can prolong this little outing - which Palamedes finds he is inclined to do, brief dip in the mood and everything. They live together, true, they share a workspace, also true, but they can't repeatedly discuss hobbies and outings being good ideas and then not do them, yes? This is well outside any wheelhouse Palamedes may lay claim to, but it's fun. It's worth it.]
I could have another, [he says, and even chuckles lightly at 'time honored in matters such as these.' Bonding, definitely; it is, actually, but he still reserves the right to point out the ridiculousness of it.]
You sounded... thorough, [is what he has to say to the wild secret lecture hall tryst gambit (tm), and it sounds more suggestive than he means "thorough" to sound, but, ah, oops. It was the gambit!] If he'd come in I might have panicked and thrown a wastebasket at him, so thank you for your sacrifice.
['Twas very noble, and so on and so forth. He can't help the pinprick of fondness he feels when he catches Viktor's blushing, endeared - and reminded at once that, aha, even with near-nudity clubs in the undercity, the Sixth's grand mission to give its hardest battles to its sexiest soldiers (paraphrased) is another weird Sixth thing he's been desensitized to.]
The whole thing sounds like it belongs in a novel, you know, [he wiggles his fingers; a sexy novel.] The Arcane Scholar's Flight of Fancy, something like that.