04 - Getting to know you

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

[The chaos of the lost languages behind them, it is time to know this place better. There are too many people, possibilities for something like uncertainty. People with their own words are far more likely to be themselves with them, in whatever form that might take. Reinette needs to watch. To see and to know.

It is time she took full stock of this place people called the Astral Plane.

A settee arrives with her, on which Reinette reclines. On a small table nearby there are two glasses, and a fine bottle of bordeaux.

This might take some time.]

Comments

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

Do you think because you converse with me, I am naive enough to think you incapable of wishing me harm? Or any other person?

I verymuch suspect your only interest in me is my relationship, whatever it may be, with the Doctor.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Then you're wrong.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

Am I?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You are.

[takes a sip from his wine]

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

[she can take a sip as well]

I assure you my feelings would not be injured. It would not be the first occasion. Though Louis was more often than not their true interest.

And that is not to say a relationship cannot alter. Very few things end as they begin.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I don't care much for your feelings as such. I'm just a bit offended,

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

If you find my honesty offensive, I do beg your pardon.

Beg is, perhaps, too strong a word]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

[a smile lingers on her lips, mingling the some wine there]

Are you done with me then? Is my offense so great?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm a bit more thick-skinned than that. And I like this wine.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

I should hope so. It is excellent wine.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I lost a good glass of wine to the Doctor's shirt the other day.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

You lost to the Doctor?

[the words are deliberate]

Was that your doing, or his own?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[he doesn't show that a mark's been hit, instead giving a casual]

I threw it at him.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

In other words you allowed him to illicit a petty display of emotion?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I thought he was broken.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

Broken in a way that wine would fix other than actual consumption?

It must have powers here I am unaware of.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed. The Plane adds many mystical attributes to things without any prior. It's astounding.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

May I inquire as to just why you believed he was broken?

And, if you felt about him as you claim, why you would have felt that was an issue?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You know, if this was a game of Questions, I think I'd be losing. Hardly fair that you keep pressing, my lady.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

I was not under the impression I ever suggested that I play fair? But your point is taken.

[there is a wave of her hand]

Ask whatever question you wish. Anything.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

How can you stand to wear those dresses? They must suffocate. I know uncomfortable clothing - Time Lord robes are awful - but really now.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

Now you sound like the Doctor.

He was never very pleased with my choice of dress either. There was a very serious lecture about my internal organs, as I recall. The immediate answer is I have now worn them longer in my life than not, and we are accustomed to one another. It is just another weapon in my required arsenal.

But since I promised to be honest, I will finish the answer. I also treasure the moment of release in the evening as well. The three or four hours each night I might be without them. Sometimes I question of it is the anticipation of then, or the actual feeling of the stays being released that is truly appealing. But it is the later.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You are quite well-armed, though. You could even be dangerous. Maybe I should be the one wary of you.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

[his reply visibly pleases her]

How could I possibly be a danger to you?