[Oh no!! I hope it was insured at least? That is seriously rotten. :( I am having the biggest DNFW day today. I have to sit here because these are my scheduled office hours but I want nothing more than to put my feet up and have a nice cup of tea. Having to mark student work feels about as appealing as clawing my own eyeballs out... /procrastinates by tagging instead.]
Aurus was not presuming that Hank and Charles had been lovers, at least not exactly (he did wonder), but he did presume from what Hank said that there was some sort of intimacy between them. It would have been very strange, to his mind, for two people to have known each other for fifteen years and hardly ever been apart during that time without there being some manner of intimacy.
"You knew him before his injury then," it was a strangely casual observation in its delivery, though of course in substance it told Hank that Aurus had managed to learn a fair bit about Charles already.
The sylvari did not, however, go on to ask what Charles had been like before or how it had changed him or anything so crass as that. In fact, he took up a tone almost as though he was beginning a completely new topic. In point of fact, he was just going to be blunt along a different vein of bluntness.
"May I ask you something that might seem rather obtuse?" Well, he was going to at any rate.
"Are there social rules or norms for appropriate relationships in your culture--different ways that men are expected to behave with men and women expected to behave with women? Or expectations for how you will and won't behave with your students."
It was (deliberately) a question that could be taken in a number of ways, and Aurus let his meaning remain ambiguous mostly to gauge what Hank would do with it. Besides, he wasn't trying to ask directly about Charles, nor even to imply that it was Charles he really wanted Hank to tell him about...which of course didn't mean that what he'd asked didn't run the risk of raising suspicions.
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Aurus was not presuming that Hank and Charles had been lovers, at least not exactly (he did wonder), but he did presume from what Hank said that there was some sort of intimacy between them. It would have been very strange, to his mind, for two people to have known each other for fifteen years and hardly ever been apart during that time without there being some manner of intimacy.
"You knew him before his injury then," it was a strangely casual observation in its delivery, though of course in substance it told Hank that Aurus had managed to learn a fair bit about Charles already.
The sylvari did not, however, go on to ask what Charles had been like before or how it had changed him or anything so crass as that. In fact, he took up a tone almost as though he was beginning a completely new topic. In point of fact, he was just going to be blunt along a different vein of bluntness.
"May I ask you something that might seem rather obtuse?" Well, he was going to at any rate.
"Are there social rules or norms for appropriate relationships in your culture--different ways that men are expected to behave with men and women expected to behave with women? Or expectations for how you will and won't behave with your students."
It was (deliberately) a question that could be taken in a number of ways, and Aurus let his meaning remain ambiguous mostly to gauge what Hank would do with it. Besides, he wasn't trying to ask directly about Charles, nor even to imply that it was Charles he really wanted Hank to tell him about...which of course didn't mean that what he'd asked didn't run the risk of raising suspicions.