Sime~Gen Roleplaying: Householding Naros Scenario
Episode #189: Deluxe (12/14/99)
Riyyh waits for the smell of the food to wake Lalique up.
Riyyh is lounging in bed dressed in a night robe, watching Lalique and a large tray of room service breakfast.
Riyyh dips a tentacle tip into the honey, since there is nobody to notice.
Riyyh: [nobody awake, that is]
Lalique, half-asleep, burrows deeper into the bedclothes, sensing herself to be awakening in an unfamiliar environment.
Riyyh thinks, "orange flowers, nice".
Riyyh is feeling rather hungry himself. He's always good about eating and, well, transfers from Nick would make anyone ravenous.
Lalique is pretty much used to waking up in strange places, however.
Riyyh samples a piece of toast.
Lalique smells something really good.
Riyyh tries not to do anything that will wreck the arrangement before she sees it.
Lalique half-opens her eyes, trying to orient her body to the concept of daytime.
Lalique assesses the damage that six hours of shiltpron playing and a fling afterwards have done to her body.
Lalique decides she feeling pretty okay, considering.
Riyyh plays with his hair, which keeps his tentacles off the food, and watches her with a fond smile.
Lalique props herself up in bed to assess her surroundings.
Riyyh: Good morning.
Lalique: Riyyh! Hi!
Lalique takes in the breakfast display in astonishment.
Lalique slowly recovers her memories of the night before.
Lalique blushes.
Lalique: Thank you. You are a dear.
Riyyh: It is my pleasure.
Riyyh enjoys eating with Gens after transfer, even if it's not the same Gen, or immediately after.
Riyyh: [this pretty much sums up Riyyh's enjoyment of a lot of things, actually]
Lalique smiles at Riyyh and gets up to check out the breakfast tray.
Lalique discovers that she didn't bring her nightgown and her other clothing seems to have somehow been discarded along the way.
Lalique wraps herself regally in a handy sheet.
Lalique: I see breakfast is ready!
Riyyh: Shall we?
Lalique: ~~ appetite ~~
Lalique: Oh, yes.
Lalique takes some toast from the tray and examines the jam selection.
Riyyh: I wanted to apologize again for missing your performance last night.
Lalique smiles.
Lalique: Well, your own performance more than made up for it.
Lalique: And I want to apologize for, well....
Lalique: Taking advantage of you.
Lalique: If I did. I wasn't sure.
Riyyh pauses to enjoy the flattery.
Riyyh doesn't want to be the one to have to break the news to Lalique that he is pretty easy to take advantage of, any time, anywhere, by anyone.
Riyyh: I have enjoyed spending the time with you. [smiles]
Riyyh isn't actually proud of being a push over, although he does take a certain amount of pride in being able to make people happy.
Lalique: Playing passionate love songs for hours sometimes has an effect on me.
Lalique: Occupational hazard.
Lalique: [grins] But it can lead to embarrassing situations.
Riyyh thinks the situation of being turned down by Nick in front of Lalique was pretty embarrassing.
Riyyh is not sure how much Lalique saw of that, but anything was too much.
Riyyh: Oh, my.
Riyyh: Nothing dangerous, I hope?
Lalique shrugs.
Lalique: My lifestyle has never been what you would call safe.
Lalique: But I'm used to it.
Lalique: It's always exciting and sometimes surprisingly marvelous!
Lalique: Like now.
Lalique makes her selection from the profusion of gourmet jams.
Riyyh smiles.
Lalique puts little dabs of several different flavors on her toast.
Lalique sensuously savors each different taste.
Riyyh finds himself wondering where Nick spent the night.
Riyyh wonders if he crashed with Buggfa, or if he found a lady to his liking.
Riyyh feels guilty for not being able to satisfy Nick thoroughly in transfer, and wishes there was something he could do about it.
Lalique: Now this is a lifestyle I could easily become accustomed to.
Lalique: ~~ delicious ~~
Riyyh: Breakfast in bed?
Lalique: Yes, with Narosian tea and Krenwich marmalade. Absolutely.
Lalique looks at Riyyh.
Lalique thinks the Sectuib also looks quite delectable, even by the light of day.
Riyyh looks twice as cute when he realizes he has her attention.
Riyyh smiles at her.
Lalique thinks this is usually not the case when she wakes up after a shiltpron flakeout episode.
Lalique pours herself some of the Narosian (of course) tea.
Lalique sips the tea, hoping some chemical stimulation will revive a clearer memory of everything that happened last night.
Riyyh, who remembers everything, butters a piece of bread.
Lalique: There was something last night....
Lalique frowns slightly, trying to remember.
Riyyh licks butter off of his tentacles.
Lalique is distracted by the sight of Riyyh licking his tentacles.
Lalique flushes all over, remembering a bit more of what happened last night.
Riyyh: My dear, whatever is the matter? [quite innocently]
Lalique: You are too adorable to be real!
Lalique: But I know a class act when I see one.
Lalique: Need any help with that?
Riyyh looks genuinely bewildered.
Riyyh: With what?
Lalique reaches out for his tentacle and gently pulls it towards her.
Lalique: Grooming.
Lalique licks the tip of his tentacle where there is still a little dab of butter.
Lalique: Ah, now I remember. Last night....
Lalique: There was something a bit odd.
Riyyh: Odd? Odd how?
Lalique: You're here with me now, but at first I thought you really wanted Nick.
Riyyh's tentacles explore her hand.
Lalique: And then you were going to leave.
Riyyh: That was a bit odd, wasn't it?
Lalique frowns.
Riyyh looks apologetic.
Lalique: Does Nick want me?
Riyyh: Why, I don't know!
Riyyh: Would you like me to ask him for you?
Lalique shrugs.
Lalique: I'm sure he can speak for himself.
Lalique: I was just confused.
Lalique: I wouldn't want to disturb your relationship with your Companion.
Riyyh: Nick does not really seek me out in that way. [confesses]
Riyyh: So long as you do not interfere nagerically, he will probably not have any opinion.
Riyyh says it wistfully.
Lalique sighs with relief.
Riyyh: Some people feel that way when it is father and son, after all.
Riyyh would rather believe it is that than any lack of actual attraction.
Riyyh neglects to mention that in this case it is grandfather and grandson, as well.
Lalique: [sympathetically] I understand.
Lalique muses that most people in the world would think that way, except for those raised in the archaic traditions of Householding Disenay.
Lalique: Well, I'm glad. Because I really do find you most extraordinarily attractive.
Riyyh looks at her, glowing at the praise.
Riyyh: You are too kind.
Lalique: Nick is attractive, too, of course.
Lalique: You look a lot alike, really.
Riyyh smiles.
Riyyh: Don't tell Nick that. He is so sensitive about it.
Lalique: Is he?
Lalique: Well, you are both extremely handsome men.
Riyyh: You are too much.
Riyyh laughs.
Riyyh doesn't want her to stop, though.
Lalique: But of course he is Gen, and with two Gens, things are more difficult.
Lalique: The misunderstandings that happen when no one can zlin.
Lalique: You know what I mean.
Riyyh: Yes.
Riyyh: I really can ask him, if you'd like. But I don't think he'd mind if you asked for yourself.
Lalique smiles warmly.
Lalique: Well, I wasn't sure, you see. Certainly a channel requires a post partner, but I wasn't sure it was really me that you wanted.
Lalique: Or if Nick required someone also.
Lalique: Or how you might feel about sharing.
Lalique: These things can get complicated.
Riyyh thinks, if only you knew.
Riyyh: I certainly have no objections.
Riyyh is far too shallow to object, to be honest.
Lalique smiles happily.
Lalique: I won't worry about Nick, then.
Lalique: We will see what happens.
Lalique: But for now....
Lalique plays with Riyyh's tentacles, which are still within reach.
Riyyh: Mmm.
Riyyh brings her hand to his lips and kisses her fingers.