All this confidence in this grand scheme of yours and yet you dash it at the final stretch.
[ She sounds unimpressed now, but that's mostly theatrical. She's been unimpressed from the start, now it's just a matter of yanking his chain around. ]
You do not think you could become everyone's favorite?
[He's not sure he's into THAT, Sandra. He might be a horn dog but there are reasons he hasn't signed up to work at Shades Darker or anything like that.]
Ah. Are you just jealous because you want me to be your concubine too? I understand.
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All this confidence in this grand scheme of yours and yet you dash it at the final stretch.
[ She sounds unimpressed now, but that's mostly theatrical. She's been unimpressed from the start, now it's just a matter of yanking his chain around. ]
You do not think you could become everyone's favorite?
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Do you mean... be everyone's concubine?
[He's not sure he's into THAT, Sandra. He might be a horn dog but there are reasons he hasn't signed up to work at Shades Darker or anything like that.]
Ah. Are you just jealous because you want me to be your concubine too? I understand.
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[ The gentle laugh that follows is... still somehow light, despite now being so unimpressed it's dripping. ]
One might imagine after a malnourished millennia in lonesome exile that my standards have withered, but rest assured, you do not meet them regardless.
[ Have they withered? She'll never tell. ]
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And he wasn't being serious before but now he's curious,]
Wha- What standards don't I meet?
[It's purely a pride thing.]