Library, Sunday

[gavegoodface]

Face was studiously reading in his spot behind the desk today. Taking notes even.

Was he feeling all right?

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Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

Face chuckled. "You mean I'll have a decent script?"

"The entire play's also written in verse," he added, the picture of innocence.

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"I meant you would not be dealing with an audience surrogate as your love interest," Cassandra sighed.

And she might have perked up a little more at the verse thing. Shut up.

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

"Oh, definitely not." Especially if he got the role he'd actually auditioned for. "But I meant it about the script actually being decent, this guy's got a way with words."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"How do you mean?" Cassandra asked, eyeing the pages thoughtfully.

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

Face flipped through the book until he found the passage he wanted. "This isn't from the play, so I don't spoil it for you," he said, before clearing his throat.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

Perhaps predictably, Cassandra sighed.

It was most emphatically not the disappointed, eyerolly kind of sigh.

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

Face was truly the only person who had ever thought of using that particular sonnet to woo. Clearly he was a genius, yes.

Look, at least he hadn't gone for Sonnet 130.

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

It was debatable whether Cassandra would have truly minded if she'd been aware of the sonnet's usage, really.

"And this is the playwright whose work you will be performing?" she said. "That is... something."

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

Face nodded. "Though the play's a bit lighter in subject matter."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"Because it is a comedy," Cassandra guessed. "... Oh, I will have to see this, Garik. It sounds--" Wonderful. "--Engaging."

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

Face smiled at her. "I'll have to put extra effort into my performance then."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"You will let me know when the performance is?" she asked.

She was not usually much for the theater, but this sounded good.

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

"As soon as I know," Face promised.