"I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything you'd seen in passing, or heard someone else talk about."
She smirks.
"I kind of already shoved most of my favorites at you. But we can try them actually warm this time, and I'll probably be better at making them a second time around."
"There's no precise translation," Astarion says, lightly batting at her fingers with his own. "The closest would be - 'sweetheart', perhaps. It's used between partners, or parents and children."
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:08 pm (UTC)She smirks.
"I kind of already shoved most of my favorites at you. But we can try them actually warm this time, and I'll probably be better at making them a second time around."
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:20 pm (UTC)"All right. I did like the things you gave me, though I know my tolerance for spice may be a work in progress," he admits.
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-08 12:28 pm (UTC)"Treat me like a what? I need to learn this other language," Astarion murmurs.
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:31 pm (UTC)"My mother's language. But you wouldn't really get that one, probably, even if I explained. Just know I mean it fondly."
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:40 pm (UTC)"You're calling me a child or a foreigner or a coward or somesuch, aren't you?" Astarion rolls his eyes, but he's smiling. "I'll allow it."
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:46 pm (UTC)"And I think it'd serve you right, since you won't tell me what damia means."
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:49 pm (UTC)"There's no precise translation," Astarion says, lightly batting at her fingers with his own. "The closest would be - 'sweetheart', perhaps. It's used between partners, or parents and children."
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:55 pm (UTC)"Pale. White."
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Date: 2025-01-08 01:09 pm (UTC)"Well, I shan't be defending myself against any of those accusations any time soon," Astarion concedes. "I can live with that."
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Date: 2025-01-08 01:12 pm (UTC)Astarion hasn't been privy to a good, solid Spanish cussing out, though she expects there's some Faerun equivalent.
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Date: 2025-01-08 01:16 pm (UTC)"So you can defend my virtue?" He laughs, but he's honestly charmed. "Very well."
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Date: 2025-01-08 01:17 pm (UTC)He doesn't need her to defend him, but it's not nothing to know one isn't alone.
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Date: 2025-01-08 01:21 pm (UTC)"Very decent of you, darling. I - don't think anybody here is even capable of insulting you in Elven except me."