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    Aventurine’s love language is gift giving.
    Ratio doesn’t speak it.

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    06 Jan 2025

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    EDWIGE BERYLLIUM, PhD, ETHICS COMMITTEE VICE-CHAIR: Thank you. I’ll now review the purpose of this meeting. Our Committee has been tasked with the responsibility of determining whether Dr. Ratio's acceptance of several large gifts from Mr. Aventurine of the Interastral Peace Corporation violates article 24 of the Intelligentsia Guild Code of Ethics.

    …Let the record show that Dr. Ratio is rolling his eyes. Dr. Ratio, please demonstrate professional behavior during these proceedings.

    VERITAS RATIO, MD, JD, DEd, THC, LPS, XYJ, PhD, PhD, PhD, etc., MUNDANITE: My most sincere apologies. Please continue. I'm on the edge of my seat.

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    It was so easy for Aventurine to lean against Ratio with all of his weight, to allow himself to let the doctor do all of the walking whilst Aventurine stumbled over his own feet. Aventurine realized this at some point, and as far as revelations go, he had to say he hated this one in particular. He rarely let himself get like this, because the last thing he wanted was to be pulled around by the whim of another person without any power to stop it. That was dangerous... and not in a way he liked. Yet he did not feel anything dangerous pressed against Veritas Ratio… and that was a realization he did not care to ruminate on. “I think I’m going to throw up,” Aventurine said.

    The doctor sighed tiredly. “Please don’t.”

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    (or; after the events of Penacony, Aventurine searches for a thing he cannot name, and Veritas Ratio holds him up as they walk)

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    10 Jun 2024

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    “You have pretty eyes, 'Father'.”

    Kakavasha didn’t touch her, nor did his eyes leave hers. Yet gradually, his awed smile died away and his expression became thoughtful.

    “Staring into my eyes is ill-advised, little one,” Arlecchino said softly, all too familiar with this reaction from people who came too close. “I can’t promise you’ll like what you see …”

    But Kakavasha, he said: “You look … sad.”

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    10 Jun 2024

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    “Were you worried about me?” Aventurine asked, not sure if he were hoping for an easy out or to be drawn even further into Ratio's orbit.

    “Do not state the obvious,” Ratio said, bluntly.

     

    Oh.

     

    “I see…” Aventurine muttered, thrown off by Ratio’s easy admission. “I can’t really help it, though. I don’t know how to swim,” he said with a small smile. “Lucky me, you’re here!”

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    or, after a mission ended with Aventurine nearly drowning, Ratio takes it upon himself to teach the damned gambler how to swim.

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    10 Jun 2024