holy rings of betazed

[warpfairy]

Isabella doesn't really like being surrounded by Betazoids. She can ward off the scans - it's barely an effort - but they look at her like she's terribly unfriendly for doing it. Still, she almost never gets verbal complaints for it. She can conduct her shopping while Lalita hires a ship to go get the Harlequin from where he left her, and then they have a week to kill on the planet and its immediate environs while the tugboat goes out and fetches her.

Shopping isn't going to take that long. They should do tourist things!

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[dream_me_up]

"I absolutely will," he says, and kisses her, and wanders off to the kitchen.

[warpfairy]

Isabella puts on a Klingon opera soundtrack and reads along in the libretto as best she can. She's getting better!

[dream_me_up]

From the kitchen, Lalita is singing along.

[warpfairy]

This is cute and he is cute!

[dream_me_up]

And soon he is also bringing her steak!

[warpfairy]

Mmmmm steak. "Oh my. What did you do to it, this is really good - did you break into the bayleaves...? Mmmm."

[dream_me_up]

"Magic," he says whimsically, and kisses her forehead, and sits down to eat.

[warpfairy]

She laughs. "Oh, would that it existed."

[dream_me_up]

"I've been a magician!" he says.

[warpfairy]

"I just bet you have!" she laughs. "I'll be polite and not ask you the tricks of your trade."

[dream_me_up]

"Good for you," he giggles.

[warpfairy]

"Did you have any particularly interesting tricks, though?"

[dream_me_up]

"Lots!" he says, nodding. "I was a stage pickpocket for a while - that was lots of fun. And when I quit that, I tried card tricks next. Came in handy for cheating at poker."

[warpfairy]

"Why would you need to cheat at poker when you could just steal large amounts of money from yourself?"

[dream_me_up]

He shrugs. "I had to get the large amounts of money from somewhere, didn't I?"

[warpfairy]

"You've had all those careers. They didn't suffice?"

[dream_me_up]

"I've had all those careers and... that was one of them?" he says, puzzled.

[warpfairy]

"There's playing poker professionally, but you said cheating."

[dream_me_up]

"Yes...? I can tell that this is a problem, I just can't tell why," he says.

[warpfairy]

"Because it's unfair for people who agreed to stake their money only on a game with certain rules."

[dream_me_up]

"Well, I guess I'm unfair, then," he says mildly.

[warpfairy]

"Ah."

[dream_me_up]

He shrugs.

[warpfairy]

"Anything else I might find an unpleasant surprise? I violate the Prime Directive as my life's work, I don't care about legality per se - but if I didn't care about ethics I wouldn't be violating the Prime Directive as my life's work."

[dream_me_up]

"I've also killed some people," he says. "Some of them might have deserved it. I don't know, I wasn't really thinking about it at the time."