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[starmark]

. . . Yare yare. What is it? Hurry up and say something already.



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[starmark]

...i don't get it

so you think it's cute, but then you don't want it?

[lapidarius]

I think it's cute. I just also think you're cute on your own. So either way, I win.

[is that how this works...]

[starmark]

that's not very helpful, when i'm trying to figure out what you like so that i can give it to you more often

[lapidarius]

I like you. I like this dumb little back-and-forth thing we do once in a while, and I also like when you're straightforward about what you're thinking or feeling.

[starmark]

oh.

i didn't think it was back and forth.

i thought it was you telling me things and then me trying to figure out how to do more of them and then you going oh no i don't really want them after all.

and then i'd get confused.

so i guess that...makes a lot more sense now.

[lapidarius]

Sorry. I've never been any good at this myself, so I think I should have been clearer about that. I was trying to tell you that I think you're cute either way, that's all.

I'm not trying to confuse you. I'm just working on figuring this out as I go along.

[starmark]

maybe we should start pretending we're talking about sumo

except that it's actually romance

romance sumo

sumance

[lapidarius]

i mean

i could probably try the whole 'thinly veiled flirting' approach, that might be fun

but you would probably have to not be expecting it for that to work, right

[starmark]

no try it

i want to see you flirt with me

try it right now

1/4

[lapidarius]

i can't just flirt on command like that are you kidding

[lapidarius]

uh

[lapidarius]

posso offrirti una bevanda calda per sciogliere il ghiaccio

[lapidarius]

THAT WAS IDIOTIC I PANICKED

[starmark]

...

wait

who's been teaching you italian pickup lines

[lapidarius]

caesar

i specifically asked him about pickup lines

this was a mistake

[starmark]

...actually i'm surprised it wasn't worse, if you learned it from caesar

mi hai capito, quando dico che io ti adoro molto?

[lapidarius]

i'm not sure i got that--i only know a few basic phrases and dumb things like that.

i know molto is 'very' and adoro is 'adore' or some form of that, so i'm going to cautiously hope that wasn't nearly as ridiculous as what i said

[starmark]

"capire" is "understand". the first part asked if you understood what followed, which i guess now i know you didn't.

"quando dico". "dire" is "say". quando dico che, when i say that

the part you didn't get was "do you understand it when i say that"

can you fill in the rest?

[lapidarius]

i think i'm smart enough to figure it out from there.

i'm a lot less likely to understand it in italian, but generally speaking i tend to get the message fairly well.

[starmark]

i capelli sono rossi come un tramonto al deserto

[lapidarius]

that wasn't an invitation to start throwing things i don't understand at me, i'm not falling for that and asking giorno to translate again

hang on

[he may or may not be looking through actual written notes]

Sono innamorata di te, la mia stella.

[GOING RIGHT FOR IT, APPARENTLY]

[starmark]

he didn't teach you your colors? rossi is red.

I brillare solo per te, by the way.

[lapidarius]

that doesn't mean i can pick out the rest of it, i'm still learning

that much, though, i think i got

[starmark]

did you also get "desert"

i said something about you is red like something in the desert

you remember crossing the desert, take a guess. we saw something red out there.

[lapidarius]

something red

[...presumably not blood because while technically correct, it would kill the mood pretty fast]

[casually checking his notes again with little success, and:]

the sunset?