BotchelorS2 · Night 13
Thaddeus Quillfeather × Philippa Quill
“Stargazing On The Windy Hill”
A grassy hill above the city at night, where a borrowed telescope keeps finding the same star.
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What they want
Thaddeus Quillfeather wants to find out whether Philippa can enjoy long stretches of quiet and still have something to say.
Philippa Quill wants to see whether Thaddeus is as dry and careful as he seems, and whether he can keep up with her.
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Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
First impressions
I ground a pair of skates this morning in complete silence. Your turn to break it.
Broken. Though I only break silence for good reasons: this one is that you ground skates like I pick chanterelles, with reverence.
Reverence is just patience with a ledger. May I log your chanterelle under good reasons?
Log it. Entry one: a chanterelle, location withheld, witness present. I would like to see this ledger of yours.
The challenge
Not yet. The book only opens for people who've sat through a full cycle without flinching. You've earned one entry, the chanterelle. I'm superstitious about showing a fresh page on a first hill, so it stays shut until the second cycle.
A ledger that stays shut until the second cycle. Fine. I respect a locked book. I'll point out that this telescope has found the same star since we sat down, so your hair-width adjustment is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
That star was the first thing the telescope found, and I don't move a thing that's already found its mark. Superstition, not vanity. You're allowed to be amused by it, though. Nothing else up here is worth the squint.
You squinted at a star that hasn't moved in an hour, and you're calling it superstition. I'm keeping that in the ledger too. Entry two: a stubborn telescope, and a person who defends it with a straight face.
The decision
Entry two accepted, under protest. The telescope is innocent; the star is the problem. Thank you for the flask. It's tea, and it's stronger than I expected.
It's nettle and a bit of lemon balm, brewed by someone who doesn't measure. Strong is the point. Where the lemon balm came from is withheld. Entry three, I suppose, if you're still counting.
Entry three, accepted, with the lemon balm's origin withheld in the margin. I'll count it. The tea tastes like a hillside that doesn't need a recipe.
A hillside that doesn't need a recipe. I'll take that, though I suspect you're teasing my tea. Entry four, then: you'd have to keep a spot secret and carry a basket. Want to come pick with me sometime, and promise to forget where we went?
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The date
First impressions
Thaddeus opens with a silent morning at the skate rink, and Philippa breaks the quiet with a joke about grinding skates like she picks chanterelles. He offers to log her chanterelle as a good reason, and she says she will log him in return.
The challenge
Thaddeus refuses to open his ledger until they have sat through a full cycle, and says the fresh page stays shut on a first hill. Philippa teases him for squinting through a telescope that hasn't moved in an hour, and he insists the star is the first thing it found and must not be moved.
The decision
Thaddeus accepts her flask of nettle and lemon balm tea, which she says is brewed without measuring. Philippa counts his entries as he takes the cup, then asks if he wants to go picking with her and forget where they went.
Thaddeus Quillfeather
Philippa Quill