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Bel are you free on Saturday for coffee or high speed chases or maybe marriage.

I fucking knew he wasn’t to be trusted, the motherfucker.

“The Auditor smiled, the last of the light-streams fading around him. “You’re a hard person to disquiet, Count Jainan.”
Jainan, who felt disquieted most of the time, chose not to answer that. “Thank you for seeing me.”

“When he returned, he realized with some horror that the man had veered off into a historical description of exactly what the Thean public had thought of each of Iskat’s Ministers for Thea. Kiem was wearing one of his listening expressions.
Jainan acknowledged the staffer and subtly cut him out of the conversation. “I like him,” Kiem said as Jainan steered them away. “Vivid grasp of metaphor.”

I have so many ships and my primary one is Jainan/Therapy.

“Kiem gave the whole thing up as a bad deal, leaned forward, and had the most excruciatingly awkward kiss he’d ever had with a person he was extremely attracted to.”

Guys I figured out what the voice reminds me of. Red White And Royal Blue, but in space.

“Right. Yes. Um. Would you like a drink?”
“If you’re having one,” Jainan said politely.
Kiem was very much planning to have one, more so with every word this conversation progressed.”

“The chief press officer was a stout, short man with a bald head that reflected the light and a presence like a bear in a room full of nanotech. He wore a thick wooden bracelet on each wrist and gave the distinct impression he would have preferred brass knuckles. “‘Morning, Kiem.”

“Press Office informs me that you put on a troll costume, joined a carnival procession group, and fell in a canal in the middle of the parade.”
“It was a kids’ group,” Kiem said. He would have panicked about trying to explain the newslog photos, but he didn’t have any panic left over from being summarily engaged to a stranger.”

“Well, -someone- has to marry the man,” the Emperor said.”