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[destenebres]

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[live_growstronger]

[Methos looked pleased.] Excellent. But, look at me, we've barely even started the first date and already I'm discussing the second. [Finishing his drink, he slides it aside.] Anything you'd like to know about me? Or that you'd like me to know about you?

[destenebres]

[There's quite a bit he'd like to know, but probably not much his date would be willing to share with a near stranger.

Still, he gives every appearance of thinking it over, plucking the lime out of his drink and biting into it delicately, sucking on it for a few moments before he lets it fall back into the glass.]

Let me turn your question around on you, or at least part of it: what do you do?

[live_growstronger]

[He wasn't wrong. Armand might ask a question he didn't want to answer. At least not truthfully. But he'd gotten pretty good at lies.]

I'm a historian. Specifically I'm an ancient language expert, Old High German, Aramaic, Etruscan, Ancient Greek, what have you. I translate old tomes, that kind of thing.

[His answer wasn't a lie, it was what he did now, anyway.]

[destenebres]

[And he has no reason to think it a lie, or to pry even if he did.]

Oh, how fascinating! [And he means it; he has something of a fondness for history, thanks mostly to Marius.] Though I don't imagine you could pursue it here without taking some time to study the local languages first...

[live_growstronger]

[Methos head tilted at that, obviously curious now.] Are the local languages different here? I hadn't noticed... [Clearly he hadn't been paying close enough attention.]

[destenebres]

[He shrugs slightly.] I'd be more surprised if they weren't, considering this is an entirely different world. Granted, what I've heard of the Eudite language does sound a bit like the romance languages...

[live_growstronger]

Is it? [Methos looks positively giddy at this potential puzzle.] I'll have to look into it. See the patterns. Maybe I could figure out if it is related to the romance languages after all, perhaps when it might have broken off from it.... [How exciting!]

[destenebres]

[He can't quite help a smile at the man's sheer enthusiasm for the puzzle presented to him, and takedowns (pretended) sip of his vodka to try and hide it.] Yes, perhaps you can.

[live_growstronger]

[What? The old man really likes his languages! And things that were actually new.] I'll let you know if I find anything.

What about you? What did you do, before Eudio?

Wtf autocorrect? Why correct 'takes a' to 'takedowns'?? >.>

[destenebres]

Thank you. [Then comes the question, and he shrugs.] I'm an artist, as I said, and part of the time a student as well. Humanities.

[The word is accompanied by a slightly sheepish smile; he's well aware of the stigma surrounding degrees in the arts and the softer sciences in the modern US, the perception that they're useless.]