subtly_artistic | in which nymphs are good for more than one thing

At least four people conclude that Bella and Celo have had sex and mention this to Bella. The fact that the door was open the entire time he spent hanging out in her room is apparently immaterial (since she wouldn't have been breaking any rules if she'd had sex with him that way, and no one was loitering in the hall supervising them the whole time). She contradicts them on this. Three people don't believe her. Miki does, and is immediately promoted to Bella's favorite out-of-class friend.

In Intro Psych for Subtle Artists, there's a discussion of what subtle artists do with their own minds, and how this differs from everyone else. Bella has already talked to all her subtle arts professors about her own peculiarities, and Professor Murray has her talk a bit about how she's used lucid dreams for introspection, self-modification, and memory boosting. Professor Murray then explains that people who aren't subtle artists can only rarely lucid dream, and even those who can don't find it an effective jumping-off point for any heavy-duty self-searching.

One of the elves in the class looks at Bella oddly through her little talk.

But she doesn't say anything, so Bella ignores her.

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There is a hall meeting the following afternoon, with pizza and cupcakes to entice everyone to show up, which works on about three-quarters of everyone. Bella shows up more because she's actually potentially interested in having input on the possible hall bonding activities that could be decided on. (The current contenders are apple picking, going swimming in a lake up-province, and making the RAs arrange a scavenger hunt. None of these strongly interest Bella, but someone could come up with something else.)

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pythbox

When people are just starting to lose attention and leave, Celo takes the opportunity to announce, "By the way, anybody who wants to fuck me this weekend, now's your chance, because I'm going out tonight and coming back Sunday."

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subtly_artistic

Bella notes this information. She, unlike two of the other hall residents, does not raise her hand; she just goes back to her room. (The vote was in favor of apple picking; she'll have the hall practically to herself most of the weekend, apparently.)

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pythbox

Celo is discussing order of operations with the two people who did raise their hands when she leaves the room.

As promised, he comes back Sunday afternoon.

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subtly_artistic

Bella is having an uncharacteristically stress-free weekend. She notices his mind reappear, while she's in the lounge with her Intro Perception jargon flashcards.

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pythbox

He drops by the lounge and beams at her. Something has him immensely pleased with himself.

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subtly_artistic

"You're in a good mood," she comments.

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pythbox

"You would not believe the amount of dick I have sucked in the last day and a half," he sighs contentedly, flopping onto a couch. "I love everything."

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subtly_artistic

"Especially that, I surmise."

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pythbox

"Mmmmmmmyep."

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subtly_artistic

Bella laughs softly and goes through another few flashcards, then says: "I emailed a bunch of people about those elf girls. No response yet. I guess I'll take better-traveled routes; they might come after me again. I don't know about you. But you can obviously defend yourself."

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pythbox

"Fucking right I can," he agrees, stretching his arms up over his head. "I'm pissed that that one girl walked off with my best dagger in her shoulder, though. Gonna take a lot of psionics labs to replace that one."

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subtly_artistic

"Maybe you could get a divination student to find it for you, if you like it that much. Of course, the elf might take exception to attempts at retrieving it."

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pythbox

"Meh, they already want to cut my dick off and take it as a trophy," he shrugs. "How much worse can it get?"

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subtly_artistic

"Well, they could want that and you could also be on their turf," Bella points out.

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pythbox

He laughs. "Okay, yeah."

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subtly_artistic

Flashcard. Flashcard.

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pythbox

"What'd they want with you, anyway?"

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subtly_artistic

"The subtle artist one is in my intro psych class. She heard me talking about being able to self-modify, and figured I was the perfect candidate to break her friend's faerie curse which requires true love's kiss."