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[leitstern]

Goodness! Now you are simply asking me to prove you wrong.

[That is warning enough.]

Hendrik, I hope you should know me better than that.

[There had been a connection. It's too late in the day to think it might still be here.]

[standvastig]

[They had certainly been pushing each other along in their youths. Jasper had long been his motivation to do better. To be better.

But on this topic, perhaps it's best not to dig so far into the past.]

You have had the tendency to stay up, but not stay out. Where would you possibly go?

[leitstern]

[Perhaps it is time for more honesty in this conversation.]

Home.

[standvastig]

[Well, he sure lost him with that response.]

Home

[He hovers back and forth between a period or question mark before ending with neither.]

[leitstern]

That is where we are, is it not?

[Not home on Erdrea but home here.]

[standvastig]

[Once again, Hendrik finds himself reading and rereading Jasper's words, trying to ensure he understands before replying.]

Yes, I suppose it is home.

[It's a tough feeling to process. Last Bastion certainly wasn't a home, and anything that preceded it had been reduced to rubble.]

[leitstern]

[Well, where do they take this conversation from here? Either they speak of their true home or avoid what should be an uncomfortable discussion.]

And somewhere to lay your head, I suppose.

[standvastig]

[That is a decent enough segue to safer topics.]

Speaking of which. I do hope you intend to help purchase more furnishings for the house.

[leitstern]

Absolutely. I know your eye for style is abysmal.

[A comment about having seen the spartan furnishings of Hendrik's room might not go down well.]

[standvastig]

I will take that to mean I can take back my curtains and bedsheets.

[Jasper has never held back on his thoughts of his sense of style, even when they were children.]

[leitstern]

I find that an empty threat.

[standvastig]

How is that an empty threat? You can replace them once you are not relying on them.

[leitstern]

[That is not Hendrik threatening to enter his bedroom and remove his drapes before he's found replacements.]

I was labouring under the impression you would...

You know what? Pay me no heed.

[Except do. He loves attention.]

[standvastig]

Very well. I will take them tomorrow morning.

[leitstern]

Tomorrow? Oh, you are far too eager to drive me up the wall!

[standvastig]

Is that not enough time to purchase new furnishings?

[He asks, having bought all his spartan furnishings in a short amount of time.]

[leitstern]

Not in the least!

I fail to see how this is even up for debate.

[standvastig]

I want my bedsheets and curtains back.

[Is there something wrong with his request?]

[leitstern]

Are you not capable of waiting one week? Do you not understand that one must find correct colour and texture? Or might you suppose drapes jump off the shelf and hang themselves?

[standvastig]

I was finished with my furnishings in a week.

[Really, Jasper should just be glad the curtains aren't black. Or striped and polka-dotted, for that matter.]

[leitstern]

A fact I hardly find surprising.

Fine. Let it not be said I cannot keep pace with you.

[standvastig]

Then I will look forward to you furnishing your room.

[Yes, he did just say that.]

[leitstern]

[For the first time in a while, he feels the urge to smile. He scarcely keeps the corners of his lips from cracking - let alone consider what to write.]

We shall see.

[With that said, he resumes his work.]