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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 14, 2017 22:17:39 GMT -5
"Remind me to never let you out of my sight with Adrian's marketing men," he said flatly.
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Post by Teja on Apr 14, 2017 22:18:43 GMT -5
"Oh please, how bad can anyone Adrian hires be?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 14, 2017 22:36:35 GMT -5
Loki pinched the air beside himself, with zero change of expression, and pulled out an image of an old magazine ad that helpfully hovered by his head at its full length.
THE VEIDT METHOD FOR BODY AND MIND, it read, over a before and after image of an initially slender and disinterested-looking, then toned and meditating, young man, with a young woman who had undergone a similar evolution from looking perturbed and anxious to standing behind him holding a weight aloft and looking serene. In the lower corner was a small portrait of Adrian, still blond and rather long-haired, helpfully captioned "I will give you bodies beyond your wildest imaginings" - ADRIAN VEIDT- OZYMANDIAS- THE WORLD'S SMARTEST MAN!
Loki repeated this on the other side and produced an image of Adrian seated in a throne, in his cuirassed costume and cloak, headband set artfully enough to not disturb his coiffed hair, with a similarly beautiful, muscular man and woman in scant pseudo-classical attire standing behind him and the slogan VEIDT ENTERPRISES: LIVE LIKE A KING.
Loki crossed his arms so he was pointing at each of these with the opposite hand.
"Do you really put it past him. Do you really."
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Post by Teja on Apr 14, 2017 22:40:57 GMT -5
She went cross-eyed, a little on purpose.
"I don't think Adrian would hire someone like Burke. You know, he does remind me of you - at least, of someone you used to be, of Lukas Ashton.... Ambitious and slippery. You used to be like that with me. Before you cared about me, when you just wanted someone's attention."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 16, 2017 11:03:20 GMT -5
He reached for her hand.
"And now?"
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Post by Teja on Apr 16, 2017 11:06:01 GMT -5
"You don't have all those nervous tics anymore. Though... you fidget a bit still. You get bored easily, don't you?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 16, 2017 12:01:38 GMT -5
"No, I don't-"
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Post by Teja on Apr 16, 2017 12:02:08 GMT -5
"Just something to do with your hands, then?" she asked sweetly.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 16, 2017 12:04:29 GMT -5
"Darling," he said, "what you're thinking of is when I'm trying to avoid losing my temper."
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Post by Teja on Apr 16, 2017 12:12:56 GMT -5
"No, you fidget constantly."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 16, 2017 12:14:20 GMT -5
"Yes, because I'm often irritated-"
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Post by Teja on Apr 16, 2017 12:18:10 GMT -5
She kissed him on the cheek.
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