It would be a pocket square, Alina, not a blue wedding suit.
[ Erik can understand, in a way. He had worn a colour, once, to highlight who he was, to mark him as other. It's a different situation - to wear colour as a source of pride versus a means of demonisation and discrimination - but he empathises.
Just a little. ]
If you'd rather I didn't, I'll wear something else. It doesn't bother me.
I'm so fortunate the tablecloth is so long. All the better for me to kick you under the table tonight.
( stop embarrassing her before she collapses and dies from it, thanks!! )
I don't mind, now that you know. I wanted it to be your choice to make.
( it's unspoken, of course, that she assumed he would mind, but — she expects he would mortify her about that snap-judgement, too. best not to let her doubt spurt out of her like an unsightly, unseemly wound. )
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[ Erik can understand, in a way. He had worn a colour, once, to highlight who he was, to mark him as other. It's a different situation - to wear colour as a source of pride versus a means of demonisation and discrimination - but he empathises.
Just a little. ]
If you'd rather I didn't, I'll wear something else. It doesn't bother me.
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( stop embarrassing her before she collapses and dies from it, thanks!! )
I don't mind, now that you know. I wanted it to be your choice to make.
( it's unspoken, of course, that she assumed he would mind, but — she expects he would mortify her about that snap-judgement, too. best not to let her doubt spurt out of her like an unsightly, unseemly wound. )
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[ Haha. Short joke.
Anyway, for a man who has often taken whatever he wanted - because he was denied for so long - Erik can do no more than just roll his eyes. ]
Then I've chosen. Blue.
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( the audacity??? )
Blue, then. Without the wedding suit.
I know it must be difficult for you to resist falling at my feet with a marriage proposal, but do try to resist.
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[ Give him 20 years. ]
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Will you be escorting me down?
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That's an improvement from tolerance.
I'll see you then.