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[guinegreer]

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[guinegreer]

To leave them? If I had to, it wouldn't be my choice.

[snaggleteeth]

That's a lot of loyalty. Years of everyday work built up to something that can survive monsters.

[guinegreer]

And building a stronger faith in its endurance.

[snaggleteeth]

I've read about faith in this world. Seems popular with Catholics. Involves a lot of tests.

Is that you? Do you not find it tiresome?

[guinegreer]

Sometimes. But faith has to be tested, in order for it to become stronger than before.

[snaggleteeth]

I didn't take you for someone worried about breaking. But then, I still don't know your safe word.

[guinegreer]

Maxen.

[ given freely now, even though there's no way for him to know the context — ash's middle name, which hasn't been widely shared here. ]

[snaggleteeth]

Pretty.

Should they be pretty?

[he likes pretty. he does not actually think it would be a problem.]

[guinegreer]

They can be.

Mostly, they should be something you wouldn't normally use in the moment.

[snaggleteeth]

No, I know. Just wanted an excuse to say something. Can't pull off a misfired text every time, can I?

[guinegreer]

I'd say we're allowed to keep talking on our own, at this point.

[snaggleteeth]

I like that for me.

Where does it come from? 'Maxen?'

[to be fair, how would he know it's a secret!]

[guinegreer]

It's a name that I'd have no reason to use.

[ and maybe she's being cagey on purpose, since it's directly tied to ash. ]

[snaggleteeth]

Oh, I have a few of those. Do you think 'Ren' is too short?

Doesn't have teeth in it, like Maxen.

[maybe he'll regret it later, but he won't be the first to have written dumb shit around a beautiful blonde.]

[guinegreer]

I don't think there are any rules on how long a safeword should be.

But anything easy to remember when you're otherwise distracted is probably best.

[snaggleteeth]

Guess it's different here, without a hundred different dialects to mix up your monosyllables. The house distorting our reception of language here, probably. I doubt you know Galactic Common.

[guinegreer]

My Latin is barely passable, so no. But a universal translator is just the tip when it comes to the weird phenomena here.