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“When you said let’s get dinner somewhere near the department office, I imagined something more… casual, lowkey.”
“Yeah? There is this Michelin ramen place from Japan that just opened a California location that I was considering, but that seemed like it’d be busy. I picked here because it’d be more quiet.” You look around at the fine furnishings of the French bistro, the housemade butter on the table, and the semi-private table away from the main dining room with a maître d’ just around the corner if you call, and you agree it’s quiet… quiet luxury perhaps. As Morgan flips through the wine list, tapping his fingers in thought against the table, you really look at him and notice the sleek watch on his wrist, the immaculate tailoring of his suit, the lush youth of his skin that glows of the best korean skin care.
“Morgan Kyne, are you loaded?” you ask, staring incredulously at him over your menu so you don’t have to look at the highbrow items ominously labeled “MP” for “Market Price”.
“Hardly,” he says with a small laugh and dismissive wave of the hand. “I’d consider myself… comfortable.”
“Morgan, the bread costs more money than I make in two hours. I don’t think I can be here; I can’t afford this.”
“You can and should be here, because you’re my guest,” the other seer insists, leaning closer to lightly touch your wrist and meet your eyes. “You don’t need to afford it, because I invited you to dinner; thus it’s my treat.” His gaze is intense and solid, his touch fleeting and electric, and you giggle nervously between his attention and unfamiliar, understated grandeur of the place.
“Are you sure it’s not the Sodality’s treat? Feels like you’re trying to show off how much they pay their Seer Obscuras,” you joke, sipping the water you have an uncomfortable suspicion was served to you in bonafide crystal.
“It’s not nothing, I’ll give you that. Though, if I thought that was all it took, I would have taken you somewhere really fancy,” he jokes back with a grin, revealing a rarely spotted dimple in his right cheek that is more tempting than any three star dinner.