Third Floor Common Room - Tuesday after classes - 03/10

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Liir was in the common room, mostly because he'd been shut in most of last weekend. The television was on, though it was on one of those ridiculous long commercial things that insisted it had the perfect method for roasting almost any meat (because the spit was such a revolution, really), but the boy himself was more focused on the shirts he had sitting on the couch with him. Needle and thread in hand, he was dutifully making minor repairs on the buttons and the seams as needed.

After all, new clothes didn't grow on trees, now, did they?

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[future_sandworm]

When Liir mentioned the play, Leto realised who he was talking about. "Oh, yes the play! Now I know."

As for Liir's words on his dealings with Arthur, Leto wasn't sure what to make of them. Leto knew that Arthur hid a strong sense of loyalty and concern for people behind a sometimes rather uncaring façade, but he wasn't sure if Liir was just interpreting things in an odd way. "It's good to hear that you are friends, then."

[bad internet died on me last night :( ]

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Now it was Liir who laughed.

"Oh, no. I think he might turn blue if I claimed that. We're not friends. But that doesn't mean I can't think well of him."

Liir's standard for polite conversation was a bit different than most. While he'd never say it out loud, he found Arthur's behavior just a little reminiscent of his own mother's. It took most of the sting out of the prince's barbs.

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Sometimes Liir was quite difficult to interpret. Leto wondered if that was due to cultural differences, or just that Liir was being a little strange. Not that lack of normality offended him in any way, of course.

"Of course not."

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"And I wouldn't take liberties so," he admitted as well.

Another shirt done. But it seemed that since the subject was raised--

"Would you mind terribly if I considered you a friend?"

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"I see no reason to turn an offer of friendship down, unless there were implicit demands in that which I would not be able to fulfill." Leto was a little cautious, considering that romantic relationships had turned out to be more complicated than expected here.

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He shook his head.

"Only the possible burden of association, if you'd consider it such," he said with a short smile.

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"Why would that be a burden?" Leto asked with a smile.

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"Perhaps 'inconvenience' might be a better word. Though I can't think of any specific reason. Well..."

That wasn't quite true.

"Arthur might be a little displeased, but I can't think of anyone else in particular with any trouble with me."

Ino didn't count. They were still...something. Siblings, certainly, even if the actual emotional content was a little murky.

"Anyway," he continued briskly, "it's always nice to have another friend, hmm?"

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"It is. And I don't choose my friends based on whether it will displease my roommate or not," Leto replied, gently squeezing Liir's shoulder.

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That got another smile. He lamented not meeting Leto sooner.

"Good to know," he said, and he meant it.

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[Good place, I think. *pats*]