Correspondence

[windmilled]

CORRESPONDENCE

...OF THE ESTEEMED LORD LUIS SERRA, FIRST OF HIS NAME, HAILING FROM THE REALM OF VALDELOBOS, RESIDING AT PRESENT IN THE TRADE QUARTER. UNWED, BUT RECEPTIVE.

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[knife2meetu]

[ He's right. Something about the sound of that hard exhale through his nose seems more amused than exasperated. ]

Have you seen me ride? Promise to lay flowers on the place where I ran your ass into the ground.

[ Leon twitches the curtains across the other window, satisfied that his search turned up nothing too concerning. He probably won't sleep until he's conducted a search around the grounds on foot, and even then, lightly, with a gun under his pillows and a knife not far from his hand, but this is all for future Leon to worry about. ]

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[ So maybe the banter gave him a little courage. ]

You like seafood?

[windmilled]

Well maybe you should have taken riding class.

[He says, about as seriously as he took actual riding class, which is to say not at all.]

I do.

[He has a feeling that he knows what Leon is thinking. At least, he hopes. And for once, he doesn't jinx it by playing it off with a joke.]

[knife2meetu]

Maybe I did.

[ Leon's going to refrain from admitting how well that went. He flunked. Hard. Took days to recover from all the bruises. Thing is, he hasn't realized that Pheme set him up for failure by ensuring he got the bitchiest mare in the stable. ]

There's this place I've been meaning to try. If the grub's no good, we hit the Trident. First round's on me.

[windmilled]

[Luis beams.]

Sounds like a perfect "not-date."

When are you free?

[knife2meetu]

[ That beat of silence isn't because Leon held his breath, not at all. ]

Don't know yet. Gotta go. I'll keep in touch.

[windmilled]

[He clicks his tongue when Leon says he's gotta go, the only indication that on his end he rolls his eyes.]

Please do. Or else I'll have to start thinking you don't like me.

[One last tease, for the road.]