crystal.

[cozen]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Nonsense. If your characters will not say anything but are obviously/observably involved with people, please feel even more encouraged than normal to "not here" reply with the deets for everyone's gossip-gathering purposes.

Bonjour, mes amis.

[ Faintly sing-song, but in a drawling and subdued way. It doesn't do to sound too chipper and excited about asking people semi-invasive questions. ]

I have been talking to the Seneschal, and we thought—well, it's possible we might need a fraternization policy. Or a record, at least, in case it becomes a problem later. And to decide whether that is necessary: information about fraternization.

[ It's obvious from his voice that he's pleased that that rhymes. ]

So who is together? Or involved, if together is a scary word.

Please feel very free to rat out your bashful friends.

[ As an afterthought, ]

If you have opinions about the policy or record part, I will take those, too.

Comments

[loversinverted]

[Without missing a beat, a single sentence, droned into the crystal.]

I confirm this statement.

[cozen]

[ For both of them— ]

Is this innuendo, “working together”?

[voidtransport]

Ah, w-well, I mean,-- professionally, we have - um - but also, sometimes, [a very nervous throat clearing] technically, I think for a good time, it should be, well, working together, sort of - collaborative --

[he's so sweaty]

[loversinverted]

Yes.

[cozen]

[ What a duo. ]

I will make a note. Thank you.

When you say you were working together, was that part of something like this? An organization, or an army, or something?

[voidtransport]

[muffled sounds of embarrassment:] no problem...

Sort of? We worked on a personal research project, but it was affiliated with something similar to the Mage Circles here.

[loversinverted]

Precisely this.

Mister Etsija has also assisted me with some of my own independent research back home - one of my brightest.

[Not a trace of embarrassment on Diabhall's end, in sharp contrast.]

[cozen]

[ Invisible on his side of the crystals, Bastien's eyebrow quirks. But he doesn't have a comment to accompany it. Instead: ]

Did they have rules about that sort thing? Your something-similar-to-Circles.