BotchelorS2 · Night 10
Barnaby Thorne × Sable Quist
“Front Row Drum Solo”
A basement jazz bar, packed and humming, where the only table left sits right beside the drummer, who takes every solo personally.
- AI-generated
- Speed date
- House cast
- 🍸 Speed-dating night · date 1 of 3
🍸 Round 1 of 3 at the mixer at a basement jazz bar, one table left: everyone was in one room. Watch the whole night, every table in order.
What they want
Barnaby Thorne wants to find out whether Sable can share a quiet moment with him now that they've already been on five dates together.
Sable Quist wants to keep the night light and fun while learning whether Barnaby can loosen up a little around her.
The finale has aired. Share it anyway:
Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
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First impressions
You made it through the door without a single glitter-related incident, which I'm counting as a small miracle. Sit. Tell me the speck got past the loupe and onto the gears, or that you held the line.
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She came in sparkling and I'm already hoping she tells me the truth about that speck.
Held the line! Mostly. One rogue speck escaped and is now clinging to your sleeve like it pays rent. Dare: you tell me what that brass key is for, and I'll confess what my hats have been plotting. Yes before you think about it!
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He actually counted my glitter, and I want to know what that key opens.
The challenge
Leave the speck where it is. It's earned a seat. The key first, then your hats. Give me ten seconds of quiet before I answer. One... two... Good, you waited. Three.
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She's already counting with me, and I didn't have to ask her to.
Two and a half is a personal record, Barnaby, don't let anyone tell you otherwise! Okay, quiet. Mostly. Is that little brass key for the music box? Don't answer yet. Yes, whatever it opens. Plan after.
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He actually made me wait, and I didn't hate it. That's dangerous.
The decision
Four... five. You kept the rhythm, Sable. Yes, it's for the music box, but it fits nothing yet, same as most of my life. I'd like a sixth date, one with no plan at all. Just the bench, you, and the quiet between ticks.
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She waited through the silence without fidgeting, and I want more of exactly that.
YES, before the last word landed! A date with no plan? That's the scariest dare anyone's ever thrown at me. ...Shh, I'm being quiet. Then someday we find what that key opens, and I show up in a hat with zero warning.
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He asked for nothing but the quiet, and that's the one thing I can't plan my way out of.
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The date
First impressions
Act 1: Barnaby greets Sable with a dry joke about a glitter speck surviving the workshop, and pulls out her chair. Sable fires back that one rogue speck escaped and is clinging to his sleeve, then drops into the seat and dares him to explain the brass key.
Barnaby Thorne