You would be surprised how sometimes determination wavers when the stakes change. I cannot fault anyone for how they feel during this competition, but it's changed things.
[this conversation is getting increasingly awkward by virtue of the fact that ray thought beauty would, like, shoo him out as quickly as possible, so they're technically talking at each other from across the room right now.]
You don't really have anything to make up for [ray's not that sorry, but he can also accept he's a dick and everyone has the right to be mad at him?] but if you want to, then sure, I guess.
[Give it a few moments, and a table suddenly is decked out with two servings of what looks like udon with pork belly and tea and coffee. Beauty moves away from where he's at and heads for the table to have a seat.]
[considering that his meals lately back home have been whatever plants and lizard/bird/etc. meat he can scrounge up, but always shared among his family.]
... Is that why you said you'd like instant coffee, of all things?
Yes. [He sounds pleased.] I'd never had it before until recently, but it's actually quite good.
[It's really not...] I'd been trying to taste a little of everything prior to becoming a god. Now I can make whatever I want, but somehow it doesn't always feel the same if I'm dining alone.
[...give him a moment and a cup of actual coffee appears next to Ray's hand.]
Non-instant. [Thanks...there's also a moment before Beauty reaches up and removes his mask again, setting it down on the floor near his chair.] I suppose the instant kind is a novelty more than anything. It wouldn't be my first choice but it was what she was used to.
[There's also cream and sugar should Ray decide black coffee is too strong, but somehow he feels that's not the case.]
Someone from the old life. A commoner. [...] A friend. When she first started working to pay off her debt to us, she was assigned coffee-making duty and that's what she brought to us. It was adorable.
[The problem is this isn't even condescending, he actually means it.]
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It hasn't for me.
[because ray is terrible.]
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...are you staying or are you going? [Given that Ray's still in the doorway, he figures he'll offer that much.]
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... Which would you prefer?
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[Also Beauty is a lonely needy bitch, too. That's just how it is.] After that you'll be free to go.
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Anything's fine.
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If this isn't to your liking, I can change it.
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Nah. I didn't really get to eat eastern food, so it's a nice change of pace.
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[considering that his meals lately back home have been whatever plants and lizard/bird/etc. meat he can scrounge up, but always shared among his family.]
... Is that why you said you'd like instant coffee, of all things?
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[It's really not...] I'd been trying to taste a little of everything prior to becoming a god. Now I can make whatever I want, but somehow it doesn't always feel the same if I'm dining alone.
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I see.
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Non-instant. [Thanks...there's also a moment before Beauty reaches up and removes his mask again, setting it down on the floor near his chair.] I suppose the instant kind is a novelty more than anything. It wouldn't be my first choice but it was what she was used to.
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She?
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Someone from the old life. A commoner. [...] A friend. When she first started working to pay off her debt to us, she was assigned coffee-making duty and that's what she brought to us. It was adorable.
[The problem is this isn't even condescending, he actually means it.]
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Also, when talking about Indulgence.
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