andexecutioner | PRIVATE MEETINGS

[You get an hour or two to collect yourself, Juri, because Ferid isn't making himself suspicious by going in any sooner. When he does come in, there's another cat being placed on the desk. It's orange colored this time, with a black ribbon around its neck.

Unlike the other times, though, he's declining to speak just yet. There's a little smugness to his smile.]

[Juri's got his head down when Ferid comes in, propped up against his arms where they're folded on the desk; he just watches as he sets that cat down, though he seems slightly amused by the...everything going on, let's put it that way.]

She was an idiot.

At the very least, I wouldn't have had to worry running out of food anytime soon, even if everyone else did~.

[He'll take a seat now, legs crossed at the knees with the air of someone who's absolutely had the time of his life.]

Chitoge was a very sweet, very kind, and very brave young woman. I'm rather glad she tried, though -- it was interesting, like I thought, and it's nice to know that though you don't bleed you certainly can be poisoned like anyone else.

[Because he knows the signs. Nobles especially use such underhanded tactics in human society.]

Yeah, unfortunately. Obviously it doesn't do what everyone hopes it will, but poison can mess me up for a while.

I hope you'll be well again by the time someone takes you up on your offer~. It'd be a shame to see you so... pitiful down there.

That aside, my dear host, I'm so, so sad that you don't bleed. Even I can, you know! Is there anything in that body of yours to be enjoyed?

You did say that you're not just talking to me due to some blood thing. So apparently.

Like I've said, you're interesting, and you only become more and more so as the days and weeks pass! Really, it's like you're trying to win my heart!

[A small sigh. What a tragedy, falling in love with their captor. Who'd ever wish that upon themselves.]

You have lost a few points being apparently bloodless though. What else am I supposed to fantasize about at night? It'd be a pleasurable experience for you, too, darling host, if I was allowed to take a bite~. Though I'm not quite sure what I'd get for it in return.

Can't say I'd know, though I've got something for you now, with or without biting or whatever.

[Nothing bad or even physical, from the look of it; he just shifts and pulls something out of one of the desk drawers, setting it down on the desk in front of Ferid once he's got it. It's a little wooden toy cat, the sort of thing with articulated limbs so you can move it around and pose it and stuff.]

This was mine. Go ahead and take it.

[......... He's getting a gift?? Wow, that's. That's something.

Ferid picks it up, fiddling with the cat as if unsure what to do with it, and glances back at Juri after a moment, smile somewhere between his usual amused and a little baffled.]

... I'll gladly have it, but I'm curious as to why you're giving me it.

[He just shrugs a bit at that.]

Same reason people give anyone anything, I guess.

Because you like me~!

[... Like it or not that's it now.]

I knew you were the coy type~. Well, I was going to ask you about your little cat toys anyway, seeing as apparently you had more than what I gave you. We talked about it a little at our meeting yesterday. You have a brown one too, don't you? With a white ribbon?

Yeah. I made it a couple of days ago to pass time.

And now you have an adorable orange one to join the gang~. It's nice that the first one isn't so alone anymore, isn't it.

Still, I'll admit was I was a little surprise to hear that answer. Did you get the idea from my first gift?

Yeah, something like that. I suck at sewing, though.

Oh, it can't be that bad -- let me see, let me see!

Maybe sometime later; I've got it put up right now for the time being.

[the fuck does he have it "put up" if he can't just easily get it

...]

I know it's obvious, but you do have a room outside of this one, don't you. Does it look like our quarters?

The room I have doesn't look like yours, but it isn't anything too elaborate, either.

I've got plenty of places that I go that you can't get at, though.

Of course, of course~! I've lived in too many places like this to think there isn't hidden rooms and passageways galore, the question is where they are in the first place. Right beneath our nose, maybe, or behind one of the walls here. Maybe you even have a staircase beneath your desk here that leads down into our courtroom.

[Seriously, how else would he get down there.]

I don't suppose you'd be willing to give me a tour?

Absolutely not.

[Ferid...]

I'm not going to play favorites, remember?

[How curt. But he's not bothered; he plays with the cat toy as if he hadn't just been rejected, making it paw at the air.]

You don't have to have favorites, my darling dear, I'd never ask that of you! Instead, I rather liked how things played out today and I'd be interested in seeing what I can do to keep this place lively in exchange. Nothing comes free, after all~.

[...]

If you want to keep messing around with them, you can. I'm not going to stop you, because I'm not really interested in stopping you.

It tells me a lot about people, actually.

Oh, does it now?

[Like, having permission is nice, but chances are he was going to find some way to liven things up again anyway. Maybe Juri'll give him some things towards that if he asks...]

And what have you gathered about our lovely group thus far?

A lot of things that I can't tell you about.

[There isn't anything condescending or pointed behind it, though; just kind of the way things are.]

Is it against whatever rules you have to follow yourself?

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