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    “We argued. Extensively. In front of his daughter. There were so many buttons to push. He’s so easily ruffled, it’s simply delightful!” He sets his monocle back in its rightful place, choosing instead to fidget with his microphone. “Of course, I do understand that, even with my lack of experience, this is not, exactly, ideal… So, I’ve come to you, my dear friend, in hopes of hearing your thoughts and getting your expert advice in this matter so I may make him my own.”

    It was quiet in the shop for several long moments, Alastor’s static feedback getting gradually louder as he became more agitated from her lack of response.

    He lifts his eyes when he feels Rosie’s hands cover his own on top of his microphone, ceasing their inane movements that were so unlike him. She looked genuinely taken aback by his confession, but not horrified, which was a good sign.

    “Alastor, I’ve gotta admit, you’re really giving me a run for my money,” she tells him softly.

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    Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is.

     

    Miles goes into rut. Phoenix is concerned, until he’s not. Then he’s fucked about it.

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    Good pilgrim, you don’t give your hand enough credit. By holding my hand you show polite devotion. After all, pilgrims touch the hands of statues of saints. Holding one palm against another is like a kiss.

    Phoenix just wants Miles to ruin him. Miles is so very, very okay with that.

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    He patiently waits beneath warm sheets for the feeling to abate, for the realization to settle with the regular flow of memories that will explain how he arrived here. It’s not so unsurprising a sensation, he reasons, surveying minute cracks in plaster, when he has only been in Europe for so long. Sleeping in hotels can often be a disconcerting experience. Soon, he’s sure, he will recognize his surroundings.

    Moments pass, but curiously, the feeling does not fade with helpful memories of settling in this space the night before, of falling asleep in this bed. As his mind casts aside the heavy cloak of sleep, clarity bleeding into his awareness like color, he comes to realize that the ceiling is not, in fact, the ceiling of his Parisian hotel room.

    Where—?

    And the low snoring in his ear is not, in actuality, the rumble of an oddly guttural air conditioning unit.

    Oh, my Lord, he thinks blankly. Did I invite a stranger into my room last night?

    He flips frantically through the scrapbook of his Very Sober memory of the night previous, and thinks, with something approaching panic, that there is no way in hell.

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    Even if he doubts, sometimes, he reasons, aware he would be a hypocrite to hope that Phoenix was inhumanly resilient, he knows at least that I would never let him go.

    The notion seizes him like a live wire, electrifying his limbs. He does, doesn’t he? Even the glimmer of idea that Miles would, could cast him aside is preposterous. Surely not. Surely.

    Yes. Of course.

    [An interim prosecutor runs his mouth. Miles realizes it's not the first time.]

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