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Misdate [18 Thory 4262]

I hadn't seen Mynthë since I dropped zir/him off four days ago after we had a very nice time at the pool, so I went to zir home after work. Zie was there, and zir Cani roommate brought zir out to me. We sort of stared at each other nervously a bit. The Cani roommate, being Cani and thus more socially aware than all the Zi Ri and Herethroy in the city put together, delicately left the room.

Mynthë :"I'm so sorry, Sythyry."

Me:"It's fine ... I'm not pregnant ... "

Mynthë :"Pregnant? Oh, all staring gods, I could have gotten you pregnant! I never thought of that ..."

Me:"No, actually you couldn't have."

Mynthë :"It was just two of us ... I'm so stuck in Herethroy mind that I didn't even think about what being in a two-sexed species would mean. I am so sorry Sythyry."

Me:"I didn't think about it at the time either. I went into a bit of a panic about it later. "

So Mynthë went into a frenzy of self-hatred and tried to break up with me. I don't remember the words exactly, and they weren't very coherent anyways. "I'm so horrible ... I'm the worst Herethroy ever, and just as bad when I'm a biped ... I just used you, magic and body ... I don't blame you for dumping me, I'd dump me too."

Me:"I'm not dumping you!"

Mynthë :"You're stupid then."

Me:"Maybe. Maybe just desensitized. I just spent the afternoon trying to get a nendrai not to see a countess's surrogate baby. You're really not very intimidating compared to that." Not the most romantic thing to say, but frenzy of self-hatred isn't very romantic to me.

Mynthë :"Oh, you want me to be the bad guy and dump you. I deserve that..."

Me:"Actually I'd like you to calm down and come to Candledance with me." I had been planning somewhere nicer and more expensive, but I sort of got the impression that zie might explode on me and stomp out of dinner early. Which would work best for me if we're at a restaurant where you pay by the hour, rather than a prix-fixe menu, say. That's kind of an adventurer way to think about it, which should bother me but doesn't anymore.

Mynthë :"You'd be seen with me that way, Sythyry."

Me:"And you'd be seen with me."

Mynthë :"Everyone would think ... "

Me:"They'd think something that's generally true. Perhaps that I'm often found in the company of other species, or that I don't like to eat alone. Some people might even think that I am choosing a better grade of companion, since you're not Dustweed."

Mynthë:"Oh ... Dustweed ... if you can be seen with zir, I'm not much worse."

Me:"And considerably better company, I believe." I didn't actually completely believe it that instant, but my records say that zie usually is good company.

Mynthë :"Right then. I'll need a few minutes to get ready."

So I sat in the fire and waited for zir to go into the bathroom and splash a couple buckets of water over zirself, and come out looking all calm and collected. Then I rode zir shoulder to Candledance.

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Is this just because you didn't talk to zir for four days?

Well. After we make love for the first time, then we don't talk for four days.

This is why you need to date other zi ri. They wouldn't feel snubbed unless it had been four decades!

When you sit in the fire, then hop out to ride on someone's shoulder, doesn't that ever cause problems with you being uncomfortably hot?

Not half the problems that happen when I'm sooty and sit on a baron's new tunic, I must say!

Hmm. And did you succeed at postponing the introduction of the infant to the arcane monster horror? You didn't say, and I don't recall anything in the broadsheets. Which I really aught to be paying more attention to, I suppose..

It hasn't happened yet.