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[originallutece]

Rosalind Lutece

Doctor of physics, professor at Recollé University.

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[roseblooms]

Do you frequently show him your text messages? I wasn't aware.

[originallutece]

Hardly. But we cover a range of topics at dinner. You come up, and suddenly it's "my assistant said the rudest thing yesterday . . ."

[roseblooms]

So you're going to tattle on me. ME, your favorite assistant.

1/2

[originallutece]

I'm not twelve, I'm not going to tattle on anyone.

[originallutece]

I'm going to gossip about you.

[roseblooms]

I'm wounded, mortally, to the very core.

[originallutece]

And yet you're still talking to me. Which, by the way: don't you have class tomorrow? Shouldn't I be scolding you for not being in bed? Don't mistake me, I welcome the conversation, but it's fairly late for you.

[roseblooms]

I am in bed. I'm not ASLEEP, naturally, being that we're talking, but I'm decidedly in bed.

I prefer the conversation anyway.

[originallutece]

I'm flattered.

Back to your original theory: you realize you've just signed yourself up for spending more time with me. This may cut into your Starcraft time.

[roseblooms]

Do men play Starcraft? I was under the impression that men are required to engage in somewhat different pursuits, such as smoking cigars, wearing three-piece suits, and potentially engaging in debonair acts of international espionage.

[originallutece]

They don't if they want to continue to talk to me. I can't stand the smell of cigars.

[Cigarettes, on the other hand . . .]

Anyway, nothing says you can't engage in the other two and play Starcraft.

[roseblooms]

You want me to wear a three-piece suit and engage in a debonair act of international espionage while playing Starcraft?

That's quite a lot of multitasking.

[originallutece]

I didn't mean at once, I meant you can engage in all of those things as a person.

[roseblooms]

I'm alarmed that you're still encouraging me toward acts of international espionage.

[originallutece]

Everyone ought to have a hobby where they meet interesting people.

[roseblooms]

And murder them, presumably.

[originallutece]

Well, not always. Mr. Bond didn't murder his temporary girlfriends, as I recall.

[roseblooms]

That goes a little beyond "meeting", don't you think?

[originallutece]

I suppose that depends on how fast you work.

[roseblooms]

DOCTOR LUTECE

[originallutece]

If you're going to text me on non-university related business, you're going to have to confront the fact I know what sex is, Fawkes, and sometimes make references to it.

[roseblooms]

this is indecent

i text you on a matter of personal courtesy and concern and this is how you repay me

[originallutece]

How on earth is this indecent!

[roseblooms]

The business of temporary girlfriends assuredly is!

[originallutece]

Is that what you call them? My, how very proper of you.