Il Pollo, Friday Evening

[gavegoodface]

Face had arrived bright and early at the restaurant, mostly because he didn't want Cassandra to think he was a no show if she got there first, a small bouquet in hand.

In his own, not so modest opinion, he thought he'd cleaned-up well for tonight. He wasn't wearing his best suit (or the blue one), but a trousers, tunic, and vest combo that he thought hit the right balance between making an effort and overdoing things.

So now he had everything he needed for what he hoped would be a successful date, except the actual date.

[For the daaaaaate, but open restaurant is open.]

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[gavegoodface]

"Oh," Face said softly. "You want a change of subject?"

[seeks_truth]

Cassandra gave him a shallow, almost childlike nod.

"I am sorry," she said.

She'd told Anders. That did not make the subject any easier with another.

[gavegoodface]

"I should be the one apologising." Bringing up dead family members wasn't a great date idea, even if you hadn't known about them.

He tried to think of a different topic. "Did you want to know how that book ended?" he asked. Because he knew how to deal with an angry Cassandra.

[seeks_truth]

Cassandra let out a thoroughly unimpressed groan. "Terribly and blasphemously, I'm sure."

[gavegoodface]

Face nodded. "Repeatedly blasphemously even."

[seeks_truth]

"I should have burned the tome when I had the chance," Cassandra growled.

[gavegoodface]

"I'm pretty sure our librarian would have had something to say about that."

[seeks_truth]

"I would not have asked him," Cassandra said.

Because of course she wouldn't.

[gavegoodface]

"He'd have noticed you setting fire to a book right there in the library," Face pointed out.

[seeks_truth]

"Then I would have set fire to it outside!" Cassandra proclaimed. He had... successfully distracted her, at least? "That terrible, terrible--"

[gavegoodface]

Mission accomplished!

"Well, now you've said that, he's never going to let you borrow it."

[seeks_truth]

"Why?" Cassandra demanded. "Will you tell him?"

[gavegoodface]

"I won't have to, he's probably got the squirrels bribed to be on the lookout for violence against library books."

Face had no idea if that was true, but it sounded like it could be.

[seeks_truth]

"Why would you even read such a book?" Cassandra asked, narrowing her eyes.

[gavegoodface]

"In my defence, I didn't know it was blasphemous when I started it." Just smutty.

[seeks_truth]

"And yet you chose to finish it after you found out."

[gavegoodface]

"I had to see how it ended."

[seeks_truth]

"Terribly," she said. "Surely you could have anticipated this."

[gavegoodface]

"It was like a speeder crash, I couldn't look away." Plus there were all those pictures left.

[seeks_truth]

"Perhaps you can just check out the book and we can burn it quietly," Cassandra suggested, after a beat.

Yeah, he was sure to go for that.

[gavegoodface]

Oh, totally.

"What would you do if I asked you to do something like that?"

[seeks_truth]

"Destroy something blasphemous?" Cassandra asked. "I would help, of course."

[gavegoodface]

Face raised his eyebrows. "You know that's not what I meant."

[seeks_truth]

Cassandra raised her eyebrows right back. "No, I do not."

[gavegoodface]

"If I asked you to help me destroy something related to your work because I didn't like it."