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[tetherbell]

There's only one cure for that. You know what it is, don't you?

[forgeabettertomorrow]

...Keeping a healthy distance?

[tetherbell]

No, Darin. You have to be exposed to it until you are used to it. Until it becomes normal!

[She leans in uncomfortably close over the bar.]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Please don't expose anything to me.

[tetherbell]

[She chuckles again. She's pulling back, but somehow that doesn't make things more comfortable around here. Instead, it shifts their respective positions so he's more looking up at her than eye-to-eye.]

Would it really be that bad, Darin? You've already gotten an eyeful, and you were sober at that point, and you only threw a little bit of a tantrum over it.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

D-Don't remind me, please...

I'm trying really hard not to think about it...

[He eyes his empty glass instead.]

[tetherbell]

Go on. Think about it. Consider the... ~possibilities~.

[Fine. Another refill for you. But it's slow, and seductive, if pouring a drink can be such a thing.]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I really don't want to think about you naked!!

[He huffs and downs that drink as soon as it's topped off.]

[tetherbell]

But why nooooooooot?

[Is she always this whiny?]

It's not like I'm going to hurt you! I'm giving you a free pass, here!

[forgeabettertomorrow]

FREE PASS TO WHAT?!

[tetherbell]

To a world of fantasy and delight.

Just close your eyes...

[forgeabettertomorrow]

...w-what are you going to do...?

[tetherbell]

Whatever you want me to. Just picture it...

[She says as she goes to chill on the other end of the bar and helps herself to some more alcohol. If the key is trying to let his imagination run wild, doing anything is just going to get in the way, isn't it?]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

[Darin just falls kind of silent and stares at his glass. Maybe it's the alcohol kicking in, but he closes his eyes.]

[And starts getting redder and redder. His eyes shoot open.]

TH-THAT'S OKAY

[tetherbell]

Just "okay"? I deserve at least a "good", if not a "great"!

[forgeabettertomorrow]

N-No, I mean...I don't need to imagine anything!! I saw enough!!

[tetherbell]

Darin, why are you being so stupid about this? Let your dreams run wild and free, to make up for your timid, awkward reality.

[She says to a naked man.]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Why is this so important to you?

Why do I have to imagine anything?? I mean, if you want me to see that bad, just make your clothes vanish!

[He's probably not even aware of what he said. Thanks to alcohol.]

[tetherbell]

[OH, SHE REALLY COULD, BUT...]

That's not the point here. I'm helping you, Darin. You're such a wreck over even such simple, natural desires -- your desires! Like a child who still believes in cooties.

You may think this rejection is giving you control over those feelings, but quite the opposite -- it is making you their plaything. Grow strong, and face them like a man, and maybe you will stand the faintest chance against your demon.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

...So, picturing you naked is going to make me strong enough to control Diomuhr?

...That makes no sense.

In fact, I bet picturing you naked will do the opposite when it comes to control.

[Should you really be encouraging a naked man to do this, Muzet?]

[tetherbell]

It makes perfect sense and shut up.

Face it, Darin. It's the same problem, isn't it? You think ignoring something is the same thing as controlling it.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I'm pretty sure fantasizing about you is totally different!

L-Look...wouldn't it bother you if I did?

Because it's hard not to think about after having seen it...

[tetherbell]

Darin, at least half the men who walk through this district are likely to fantasize me. Why would one more bother me?

[It's actually kind of rude that you're not!!]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Because we're friends?

And I actually like you?

[tetherbell]

... ... ...

[For a moment, her cool attitude seems to slip.]

You... really like me?