16:58 <banana> Willie's been invited to a vampire's lair at night. Again. 17:00 <banana> It's actually not that late - barely 6:30. Sergio asked: <May I see you? So much is happening. I hope we can talk, soon.> 17:01 <VoxPVoxD> Kaga's been very quiet since Bob brought him home, and he's got a standing order not to trash or root around in her things, so she can definitely leave him home for a bit if that's what's required. <of course. your place or mine? full disclosure: i must warn you i have a Rude Canine Flatmate> 17:02 <VoxPVoxD> The ride to Aldred Street is shorter than it feels. Her mind is racing. 17:06 <banana> There's no response on the way over, which is unusual. He knows about the animal thing. 17:07 <banana> When Willie arrives in the darkened suburb, most of the shutters on Sergio's home are down - but the front door isn't barred (it can be) and there's light spilling from within. 17:08 <VoxPVoxD> Alright. Not going to overthink that. Going to ruminate on that precisely the correct amount. 17:09 <VoxPVoxD> She's dressed... not up, but not down, either. She's got her cherry-red coat on, and a stark white top/black slacks outfit on beneath it. How close does she get to the door before he opens it? 17:10 <banana> All the way. It's only when she's reached the threshhold herself that she hears the voices. 17:10 <VoxPVoxD> Oh fuck. 17:11 <banana> Not Sergio: "...can't believe you sometimes. After hearing what the tankies did you still want to ask questions?" 17:12 <VoxPVoxD> Does she recognise the voice? 17:12 <banana> Sergio: "Things can be fucked up there and still be fucked up here. They may be fucked further up." His voice is raised; not quite yelling. 17:14 <banana> After a second.. she hasn't heard this guy speak much, but yeah, it's him. 17:14 <banana> Drew Salmon: "Pull your head in - excuse me, pull your fangs in before someone less forgiving than Weaste gets a sniff of your misgivings." 17:14 <VoxPVoxD> Knock knock knock. 17:15 <banana> Bonasera: "I do appreciate the reference to-" Knock knock knock. 17:15 <banana> They both go quiet for a moment, then there are footsteps; Sergio saying "Leave, salmon man. You can annoy me if we both survive." His voice is on the way to the door. 17:16 <banana> "Willie love." He opens the door. "Can we step outside for a moment to allow for some fumigation?" 17:17 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "Of course, darling." How does he look? Upset? 17:17 <banana> He looks genuinely annoyed. Presumably not by her. 17:18 <banana> Sergio walks down the verandah to the motorbike alcove, leaving some space between him and the front door. Presumably Salmon's about to come out. 17:18 <VoxPVoxD> Then she will step back demurely and let him out into the night, only going in for a kiss once they're both well outside. 17:20 <banana> The man with blue hair nods to Willie or her kissing silhouette as he passes and doesn't quite quite say anything. Sergio waits until Drew's committed to the street - there's a Bugatti parked out there - before saying, spitefully, "You don't sniff fangs." 17:21 <banana> Salmon: "Hypocrisy has a perfume of its own!" 17:21 <VoxPVoxD> Prick car for pricks. 17:22 <VoxPVoxD> "Have a good night, Mr. Salmon," is all Willie says to the man. 17:22 <banana> It makes a cool noise when it goes, though. 17:22 <VoxPVoxD> She's big enough to admit that. 17:22 <banana> Sergio slumps a little, on Willie or the wall if she's not available. 17:23 <banana> He's solid, if not... warm. 17:23 <VoxPVoxD> She's both. 17:23 <VoxPVoxD> Happy to hold him for a moment there on the veranda. 17:23 <banana> That's mutually agreeable. 17:25 <banana> "I think we're fish-free now." 17:25 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "Then you should invite me in, my love." 17:26 <banana> Sergio: "I hereby permit you over the threshhold - and will face the metaphysical consequences." 17:27 <banana> The doorway beckons you both in. It's not really a problem for it to be open to the street - all you'll see there is a bare lacquered hallway, not paintings of bats or something - but it's nice when it's closed behind you and the wind chill dies down. 17:28 <VoxPVoxD> Willie hangs up her coat. "I caught the very end of your conversation before I knocked. It sounded, to use the parlance of the Service, 'frank'." 17:28 <banana> Sergio's kitchen is a tiny bit less disused thse days, and if Willie doesn't object, he's going to start making her tea. 17:28 <VoxPVoxD> She watches with a contented smile. 17:29 <banana> "It was annoying to the point of being fraught. Thanks for arriving with celerity." 17:29 <banana> Sergio: "Drew is... not a bad man." 17:29 <banana> "Well, no, he is." 17:29 <banana> "What I mean to say is, he came over here to argue because - I think - he cares about me and doesn't want to see me come to harm?" 17:30 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "Perhaps he merely fears being tarred by association. Perhaps there is genuine concern. I'm in no position to speculate. All I know about him is he thinks he looks cool and is funny." 17:32 <banana> Sergio: "He doesn't look cool. He looks like a man who was born in 1930 and thinks the good bit of waking up in 2020 is Japanese animation." 17:33 <VoxPVoxD> Willie laughs. 17:33 <banana> "Incidentally, I'm happy to talk around things for as long as you like, but let me know if it's an anxiety thing and you want to cut to the chase." 17:34 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "I'm fine. You wanted to talk. You set the tempo. I can dither with the best of them." 17:34 <banana> Sergio: "Maybe just until the water boils." 17:34 <banana> "How did everyone like the four kings' party?" 17:36 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "A great deal, I think. Agostina had a kerfuffle with the dark magician, and Rolf's never really happy without a Guinness in one hand and a throat in the other, but on the whole I think everyone had a lovely time. I was surprised by how much Aaron enjoyed himself. A watershed night for Bob, obviously." 17:36 <VoxPVoxD> "Bobviously." 17:36 <VoxPVoxD> "What about you?" 17:37 <banana> Sergio: "Really nice night. I like to dance, I liked the people we met, and they had the general air of.. making the best of a bad hand. Successfully. Perhaps those myths we talked about have not yet run their course." 17:38 <banana> Kettle's boiling. 17:38 <VoxPVoxD> "There is still magic in this world, and it hasn't all gone sour," Willie agrees. 17:38 <banana> Sergio: "That reminds me. Would you mind taking this to the living room? I need my hands free to grab something." 17:39 <VoxPVoxD> The strings from Psycho start playing in Willie's mind. "My pleasure." 17:39 <banana> Sergio vanishes into the back studio for a moment and then returns as Willie's getting settled, carrying a paper roll-up tube. "Right." 17:40 <VoxPVoxD> !!! 17:40 <VoxPVoxD> "Oh my." 17:40 <banana> "I don't know how much you know about this already... that's part of the problem. There is... absolute chaos at Inchcape. Social chaos only, I should say." He's pacing! 17:41 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "Right." 17:41 <VoxPVoxD> That's a very I-expected-this 'Right.'. 17:41 <VoxPVoxD> But not a jaded or dismissive one. 17:42 <banana> Sergio sounds increasingly Concerned, bordering on upset. "They're saying - the leaders of the covenant, Emily and her kin, they tell us that that some, ah, survivors of the old war were captured. Kidnapped. Starved and beaten, God knows what." 17:43 <VoxPVoxD> "The Count and Countess Salford. The Gardeners." 17:43 <banana> "You do know." 17:43 <VoxPVoxD> "Yes and no." 17:43 <VoxPVoxD> "Before we continue, we should... look." 17:43 <banana> Sergio: "...then I'll go on. Maybe a perspective will be helpful to the synthesis you- yes?" 17:46 <VoxPVoxD> She sets her tea down and rubs her hands along her thighs a bit. "The Salmon Man's point wasn't entirely without merit. Now, I trust you. And I trust that you trust me. Insofar as all we need to go through these nights together is each other's trust... we're set." 17:46 <VoxPVoxD> "But there are complications. My House does not trust you, or your house. And yours, I imagine, regards ours with a great deal of caution. And then there is the wider world out there which would happily see us destroyed or exploited, all the more so as we grow closer together." 17:47 <VoxPVoxD> "So before either of us says anything else that could exacerbate that risk... that could cause us to feel remorse and regret for loving each other... we should acknowledge that." 17:47 <VoxPVoxD> "This is... this is your last chance to back out safely." 17:48 <banana> Sergio's stopped pacing back and forth, so he's now just standing in the middle of the room looking at Willie with downcast eyes. 17:48 <VoxPVoxD> Ah fuck. 17:49 <VoxPVoxD> She hates seeing him sad so much. 17:49 <banana> "Is that what you want? That's the only thing that would have me do it. Abandon.. whatever connection this is, whatever truths are here." 17:50 <VoxPVoxD> Willie's voice is barely a whisper. "No. No it isn't. I have risked my life, time and again, to get here. To be with you. I will do it a dozen more times. A hundred." 17:50 <VoxPVoxD> "But I need to hear you say the same thing." 17:52 <banana> Sergio moves to the sofa, slowly, to sit. "I haven't been good at this. Expressing... feelings explicitly." 17:52 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "It's not easy to do." 17:54 <banana> Sergio: "No. It's a very different era and I don't know whether the way I feel things is still credibly human." 17:54 <banana> "I think- I know I've been falling in love with you, Willie. One piece of evidence I have for my heart is that it seems incredible that anyone wouldn't." 17:54 <banana> "And I know that's not enough, not the same thing as a commitment in the context of.. all this." His face is all scrunched up. 17:54 <banana> He doesn't have much in the way of wrinkles, so the skin just sort of folds arbitrarily. 17:55 <banana> "Can I say something kind of weird?" 17:55 <VoxPVoxD> "We'll be doing a lot of that going forward, I expect." 17:57 <banana> Sergio: "Okay. I do know this is weird, however- I admire you so much, Willie, that I feel like this path is the right one... even if we didn't last as a couple. I want to be with you, but, regardless, I feel like it's the right thing to do. To get involved in your business, your world, not to retreat into the other one I've been handed." 17:57 <banana> "Or sold." 17:58 <VoxPVoxD> Oh. 17:58 <VoxPVoxD> Willie forces herself not to cry. 17:59 <VoxPVoxD> "Well." 17:59 <banana> Is that a look of hope? 17:59 <VoxPVoxD> She brushes her thighs again for no reason. 17:59 <VoxPVoxD> "Er." 17:59 <VoxPVoxD> "...do go on, then. You mentioned a synthesis?" 18:00 <banana> First, a hug. Even if she's holding a teacup, side-hug at least. 18:00 <VoxPVoxD> She hadn't picked it back up yet, so she accepts the embrace gladly. 18:02 <banana> Sergio takes a few moments to switch mental gears. He's quick, but both of these tracks are well-worn. 18:02 <banana> "A piece of the puzzle, anyway." 18:04 <banana> "So... Alex Gardener, apparently once a well-liked man... when most of his peers were not... dead of this maltreatment. Ruth Gardener is restored to us and whatever she once was is now.. cold, bitter naturally. Dangerous." 18:04 <VoxPVoxD> Willie nods. 18:05 <banana> Sergio: "She's both a victim and a witness to however many years of terrible crimes. This is going to be advertised; propaganda. The Wise and Solemn Court, overarching night-society, has strict rules and clearly hasn't followed them." 18:06 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "I imagine so, yes." 18:07 <banana> "We're going to be engaging in yellow press. I don't know the consequences. It's not why I learned editing." 18:08 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "De La Warr crossing the Irwell is not unlike Caesar crossing the Rubicon. The old era of detente is over, and everyone knows it. And the new era began in shame for the democrats and a fresh swell of strength for the aristocrats." 18:09 <banana> Sergio: "Ah yes. The dramatic bit I hadn't mentioned." 18:10 <VoxPVoxD> Willie looks rueful. 18:10 <banana> "I'm not sure whether anyone from the covenant actually came to blows with Carthian vampires... Emily was there, so what's the point? But it was a confrontation. Things were exploded." 18:10 <banana> "Absolutely everybody dead is going to hear about this." 18:11 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "If they haven't already." 18:11 <banana> "Would you believe that's two of the three things that are now buzzing around my mind?" 18:12 <banana> Sergio looks a bit annoyed again, rather than sad. His reactions aren't what Willie's would be; they may be better attuned to survival. 18:12 <VoxPVoxD> What are you implying, narrator? 18:12 <VoxPVoxD> "The third?" 18:13 <banana> Sergio shifts on the sofa, throws his arms and head back. "Everyone had questions. There's a hierarchy, so you ask questions of your sire - vampire inductor. I'm lucky; Simpson answers questions. But the things he said..." 18:14 <banana> "He talked about you, Willie." 18:14 <VoxPVoxD> Willie nods. 18:14 <VoxPVoxD> "What did he say?" 18:16 <banana> Sergio: "He said he hoped we were enjoying ourselves while we can. He said you will either become a great lady of the night or an implacable enemy, and he's not certain which. He said there's already more than one apparently-living Wellesley. That none of this was my role, that it's unlikely I'll be expected to fight, and that they appreciate the artistic commentary." 18:17 <VoxPVoxD> She doubts very much that Sergio is lucky. If Weaste told him anything of substance, he had a reason, and not one with Sergio's benefit at the forefront. 18:17 <VoxPVoxD> "Wait. Back up." 18:17 <VoxPVoxD> "Apparently-living?" 18:17 <banana> "Insulting. But everything he says has the ring of truth." 18:18 <banana> Sergio: "Yeah." 18:18 <VoxPVoxD> "You mean..." 18:18 <banana> "This was part of... I only came away with impressions of what he said, core facts. I'm sorry, I should have probed who exactly he meant." 18:18 <VoxPVoxD> "I doubt he would have told you." 18:19 <banana> Sergio shrugs. "He told me the rest. I just don't like the answers, and I don't know what to do." 18:19 <banana> "Are you ok with it? The prospect that some relative has been turned, is concealing themselves?" 18:19 <VoxPVoxD> "No. No I am not." 18:19 <VoxPVoxD> "But let me set that side for a moment." 18:20 <VoxPVoxD> "Do you feel angry that he doesn't see you as a fighter?" 18:20 <banana> "That's understandable." 18:20 <banana> Sergio: "Well. It's not like I want to hit someone. Not since I was sixteen, anyway." 18:20 <banana> "And yet. And yet!" 18:20 <banana> "There is this thing inside me, this drive which, unsatiated, grows stronger than anything else I've experienced. It tells me that I can and must do anything to... go on." 18:21 <VoxPVoxD> "To survive." 18:21 <banana> Sergio: "That's all I wanted! To go on living - to draw - I want to make you happy now, if I can. Always thought that'd be a good feeling and it is. How is this too much to ask?" 18:21 <banana> "They're talking about some kind of blood war. VI4- 5- they don't use the term. But the ancillae do." 18:22 <VoxPVoxD> "Yeah." 18:22 <VoxPVoxD> "It's not too much to ask. I don't think, anyway." 18:22 <VoxPVoxD> "But it's not what the night-city is set up to provide you." 18:23 <banana> "Is it my duty to try and change it?" He frowns at that task. 18:24 <VoxPVoxD> "That is not any one person's role. Not yours. Not mine." 18:25 <banana> Sergio: "Sure. It'd be hubris to say otherwise." 18:25 <banana> "And yet, I still need to decide what to do." 18:25 <banana> "Advice from a sexy genius would be so appreciated." 18:25 <VoxPVoxD> Willie laughs. 18:26 <VoxPVoxD> "You understand... the implications. If there is a war, you are a target. And so am I. If something happens to you, your house will see it as an attack. If something happens to me, my House will as well. A war may swing on these margins. Not the linchpin, but... a potential flashpoint." 18:26 <VoxPVoxD> "A tremendous risk, leavened only by the fact that you are easy to control, and I am easy to kill." 18:27 <banana> Bonasera would like to take exception to both of those. 18:27 <banana> Hard to do when you attend Inchcape so regularly. 18:27 <VoxPVoxD> "By their lights," Willie adds when she sees the look on his face. 18:28 <banana> "This would make a really good film." 18:28 <VoxPVoxD> "It might make a better novel. There are so many characters. But that would waste the soundtrack." 18:28 <banana> Sergio: "It's like one of those wire dramas - Korean border, Montagues and Capulets - but the lines are drawn in, you know." 18:31 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "My advice to you is this: you are not in a position, right now, to safely defy or resist your covenant. One of the conditions I laid down to Lord Weaste upon telling him where Ruth was is that our House, the people you met at Samhain, are staying out of this fermenting blood war." 18:31 <VoxPVoxD> "We view it as, essentially, a party-political matter." 18:31 <VoxPVoxD> "Of course, speaking personally, I can't be so aloof. And he knows that." 18:31 <VoxPVoxD> "Hence his ambivalence." 18:31 <VoxPVoxD> "Hence him telling you that I have family on one side of the line already." 18:31 <VoxPVoxD> "Knowing you would tell me." 18:31 <VoxPVoxD> "Letting us both wonder." 18:33 <banana> Sergio: "If there has to be a war, of which I am not convinced... surely it'd be acceptable for you to stay out of it. That would be the default assumption for almost everyone." 18:35 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "That depends on the stakes of the conflict, my prominence, your exposure... as I said, from now on, no matter how devoted we are to one another, objectively we have become... liabilities. Ways to leverage one another. Points of ingress into each other's houses." 18:37 <banana> "Are you allied with the- would it best if I don't ask that kind of question?" 18:37 <banana> "To reduce leverage." :[ 18:38 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "This is the kind of thing we've got to decide. It would be better, yeah... but it would be best if I left right now and we never spoke again. Neither of us is going to do that. I propose this rule: do not ask me any question whose answer you are not prepared to repeat to your sire." 18:39 <VoxPVoxD> "Now, if you're asking if I'm aligned with the Carthians, the answer is no." 18:39 <VoxPVoxD> "I don't like them either." 18:39 <banana> Sergio: "Okay, and okay." 18:39 <banana> "They seem fine, but... one thing that worries me." 18:39 <VoxPVoxD> "Yeah?" 18:40 <banana> Sergio: "The one time I spoke to one of the Carthians about their revolution- the one that happened a few years after I was turned - she told me, another war would be completely unthinkable." 18:40 <VoxPVoxD> "It would." 18:40 <banana> "The cost of the last one was too high, you see. Death and destruction. So it can never happen again." 18:41 <VoxPVoxD> "They said the same thing between the World Wars." 18:41 <VoxPVoxD> "The unthinkable is not the impossible." 18:41 <VoxPVoxD> "Can is not will." 18:41 <banana> Sergio: "Yes, I know." 18:43 <VoxPVoxD> "Now, the 84 Uprising was a fulmination centuries in the making. Generations of corruption, exploitation, depravity... there has not been enough time for enough bad blood to flow. Everyone is weaker, tireder." 18:43 <banana> "Maybe we could get them to build a McDonalds at Inchcape and one at the Free Trade Hall." 18:43 <VoxPVoxD> "I believe that war was inevitable. This coming war... is not." 18:44 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "Ones with the little playgrounds for children, and plastic slides that end in an open, toothy mouth." 18:44 <VoxPVoxD> "I'm sorry. That was not worthy of this conversation." 18:44 <banana> Sergio: "We don't have to talk only about terrible things." 18:45 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "Yes. So let's banish the thought of children in Inchcape." 18:45 <banana> "When did it go from a scene of triumph, for you, to a place of nightmares?" 18:46 <VoxPVoxD> "Do you really want to know?" 18:46 <banana> Sergio: "I still think of the building mostly as an office. With an unusual amount of basement square-footage." 18:46 <banana> "If it's about you, I want to know." 18:49 <VoxPVoxD> Willie recites from memory: "Sylvia Hursley-Apple, born 1851, died 1881. Agatha Hursley-Apple, born 1871, died 1901. Eliza Beth Hursley, born 1891, died 1921. Maeve Baker, born 1911, died 1941." 18:50 <banana> Sergio frowns, thinks, and continues to frown. 18:50 <VoxPVoxD> "Alex Gardener, that old sweetheart, took his concubine into his Embrace when she was 30. She was survived by a daughter, then ten, who was taken into her mother's Embrace when she turned 30." 18:50 <VoxPVoxD> "Four generations. Four ten year olds who lost a mother to the night. Four thirty year olds asked to do the same to their daughters." 18:51 <VoxPVoxD> "Your sire has just paid us one million pounds to get that man back." 18:51 <banana> "Is that- is that the Bradford Line? A series of.. planned generational.. that's not-" 18:51 <VoxPVoxD> "You remember when Bob babbled to you about how I was having a bad time?" 18:52 <VoxPVoxD> "That's the bad time I was having." 18:53 <banana> Sergio: "That's awful! Even if the old Kogaion agreed to it she can't possibly have committed her daughters, and their daughters- they weren't all born!" 18:55 <VoxPVoxD> Willie's voice has grown cold. "So if it ever seems like I have lost my enthusiasm for that pretty little bunker court... if you ever wonder *why* Simpson Kirkpatrick has yet to decide if I am better off a queen of the night or a corpse in the dirt... that will do for a start." 18:56 <VoxPVoxD> "I share his ambivalence." 19:00 <banana> Sergio: "I don't want to think about this." 19:00 <banana> "That's probably not the way Simpson meant it, but it's not like your point of view isn't clear - and it's not just a point of view; that's relativism. Was I making that kind of choice? A box of riddled bones or a court- not jester, they have Fortunato. Although he's a monster, actually. Add Ruth and I am not... looking forward to the tenor of the court. These are- uuuurrgh." 19:00 <banana> "The worst vibes." 19:02 <VoxPVoxD> Willie grins despite herself. 19:04 <VoxPVoxD> "At Samhain, I was talking to Bob. He asked after you, when I told him Councilor Barrowsmith had confiscated you, and he confided that he thought that the night-city would be a reprieve from politics." 19:04 <VoxPVoxD> "You and he have more in common than is immediately apparent." 19:04 <banana> Sergio: "Does he play bocce? Bowls? Do they have bowls in America?" 19:05 <banana> His eye falls on the scroll tube. 19:05 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "I don't know! They must, right? They've got all that bloody land." 19:05 <VoxPVoxD> "I'll ask." 19:05 <VoxPVoxD> Willie follows his gaze. 19:05 <VoxPVoxD> "I want to make a request of you." 19:05 <VoxPVoxD> "It's going to sound even weirder than the thing you said." 19:05 <banana> Sergio: "It's- oh, go ahead." 19:06 <VoxPVoxD> "I think, insofar as we should have a strategy going forward, it should be with an eye towards ensuring our mutual survival. Giving ourselves, and each other, the best possible chance not just to be together but to see the coming turmoil through." 19:07 <VoxPVoxD> "To that end, I want you to start hypnotising me." 19:07 <banana> Sergio: "Alright. What?" 19:07 <VoxPVoxD> "I want to develop an understanding of the experience. I believe I can, with greater expsoure, deepen my resistance." 19:07 <VoxPVoxD> "But how can I invite such exposure? That would require absolute trust." 19:10 <banana> "I mean, you don't have to prove anything to me when it comes to trust. I'm.. okay with doing this, actually, because I know I wouldn't do anything other than we'd agreed to." 19:10 <banana> "But can you really develop a resistance to... what the Church insinuates is a dark mirror of God's absolute command, twisted by His cursed predators?" 19:11 <VoxPVoxD> Willie: "I believe so. I've already begun developing... expressions of my blood which are not within the remit of the teachings of Milan." 19:12 <VoxPVoxD> "I can feel you in my veins now. Without any kind of enthrallment or bondage." 19:13 <banana> Sergio takes out his phone. 19:13 <banana> "Sorry, I just need to check whether I've got a message reading 'That's what she said.'" 19:13 <banana> "He's slacking. I'll send it to myself." 19:13 <VoxPVoxD> Willie laughs and snorts. 19:14 <VoxPVoxD> "When I summoned the demon, Aaron made me give them a safe word, so they'd know when I was really in trouble as opposed to just seeming in trouble." 19:15 <banana> Sergio: "Summoned the demon." 19:15 <VoxPVoxD> "Mmhmm! I'll let you meet him sometime. He looks mostly like a mastiff." 19:15 <VoxPVoxD> "But I don't want to delay the tube any more." 19:16 <banana> That's how she got a dog. He was going to ask, but Drew turned up... 19:16 <banana> Sergio: "Bad news there. I've decided it would have more impact if you all open it together." 19:16 <VoxPVoxD> "Is it for the House?" 19:16 <banana> The cardboard has those little red plastic caps. so you can't see what's inside even if you hold it up to the light. 19:16 <banana> "For your colleagues - and you, but more the others." 19:17 <VoxPVoxD> "I will see to it that they open it together." 19:17 <VoxPVoxD> "Now, might we just... sit a while?" 19:17 <VoxPVoxD> "Be together?" 19:18 <banana> Sergio: "Thanks much! It's a sudden creative whim. Wish I could see it, but... reduced points of ingress." 19:18 <banana> "Let's be, until the call of sleep or the hunt." 19:19 <VoxPVoxD> :)