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timebethine ([personal profile] timebethine) wrote2023-10-28 11:00 am
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[Closed Post: Baklava]

Laertes delights in the many spices of the Mansion's kitchens--he lost several hours one evening just opening every bottle and smelling it, acquainting himself with the differences between cardamom and allspice, sage and bay. Today, he is intent upon celebrating those spices with a baklava recipe he's found, and so he's roped Sagramore into serving as his sous-chef. While Laertes prepares the dough to laminate, he sets Sagramore to chopping nuts up finely. "This recipe saith walnuts," he says, "but another hath pistachios, and a third one walnuts and almonds mixed."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Sagramore considers. He's so used to keeping the joys of his lovers to himself, but he's trusted Laertes with a thousand other things already and Laertes has never done anything that might damage that trust in any particular. As well he thinks Laertes is observant enough to have worked out the truth it already.

So he says, "Aye. Nearly as long as thee, though I knew him longer."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Thou wilt tell no one, and none of them," he says, although he already knows what Laertes is going to say; it still bears saying.
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
That promise made, a grin overtakes him, boyish in its delight. "Queen Janet."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"She's incomparable." He sighs, a fond sigh. "I like frightening terrible women. I adore her."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Thou understandst precisely! If I were to watch thee at thy sport I'd come undone entirely."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Luo Binghe. Not regularly, he's in love with someone else but it's slow going."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
He lets out a breath. "Aye, I'm on the other side of it as well, and aye-- I worry for him. He's a good friend and I'd have him happy."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Hast thou any others?"
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
"No? Thou shouldst dare much, thou'rt good for it. Who, an thou wouldst say?"
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Enjolras is very handsome." He bumps his shoulder against Laertes' lightly, commiseration. "I only spoke with him once, and on his first day here -- I shouldn't wonder thou hadst better conversation of him later."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Thou shouldst spend time with him, then."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
He laughs ruefully. "Ah, Christ-- Jasin, I think, or very near to it, but-- I do, generally. I fall in love too much."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-29 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Tch," but there's no force behind it. "He's taken care of me, and been open with me-- the day I came here he played for me and watched over me while I was sleeping, and he remembered some song I had half-mentioned and found it in the library and learned it for me."

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