[Fate. It's something to consider, in light of everything that has happened. Are those decisions destined to be made, or can a person act of their own freedom and independence? His thoughts drift, threatening to take him away in silent rumination — but her words bring him back, a line worrying itself between his brow.]
'Play along'... then, you mean, having relations.
[There is no better way to say it, so he repeats her chosen words, voice low and circumspect. His eyes carefully do not linger on the woman beside him; he remembers how she had looked on the bed in only sheer nightwear, the first time he'd ever seen someone else so exposed in the flesh under the pretext of a 'hangover', his presence imposed upon her by the House.]
My experience is also limited. Like you, I was preoccupied with other matters in my own world. Was it difficult for you to make that adjustment? And by insistence, do you mean coercion on behalf of the House?
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'Play along'... then, you mean, having relations.
[There is no better way to say it, so he repeats her chosen words, voice low and circumspect. His eyes carefully do not linger on the woman beside him; he remembers how she had looked on the bed in only sheer nightwear, the first time he'd ever seen someone else so exposed in the flesh under the pretext of a 'hangover', his presence imposed upon her by the House.]
My experience is also limited. Like you, I was preoccupied with other matters in my own world. Was it difficult for you to make that adjustment? And by insistence, do you mean coercion on behalf of the House?