[Happy New Year!!! I hope your New Year was - and continues to be - as fantastic as mine was. ^_^ I hope the partner is doing well, too!]
This was still the 80s, a time when such talk was only just becoming acceptable, and it still (despite what Aurus intended) made Charles glance around to make sure it went unheard. Maybe it was the ghost of his parents lingering over his shoulder, tsking their disapproval over all of this - his choices, what he had done with his inheritance and his life. Those, at least, he was mostly able to ignore.
"For now, that founder needs to see where things go before he could speak further on it." He gave a small, almost sly smile with those words. It felt like so much, almost all of it he couldn't name, was resting on tonight. Like something waiting to happen to lead to something far bigger, be it for better or worse. Yet despite the mixture of emotions within him, he found himself excited. That potential danger might have been a bit of a push along the path leading to Aurus' room that night.
But dinner didn't last long - Charles was a bit on the anxious side to get down too much of a meal and clearly the children were excited from the differences of the day, so the noise and even the pressure of their minds grew to be a bit much. He looked to Aurus and gave a smile of someone who knew they were about to go do work, small and knowing. "I'm going to try to get everything done as quickly as possible, but it will still be a few hours. If you want to explore the library and take something back to your room, I think you would find you have any number of youngsters willing to lead your there. Do you remember how to get back to your room, though?"
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This was still the 80s, a time when such talk was only just becoming acceptable, and it still (despite what Aurus intended) made Charles glance around to make sure it went unheard. Maybe it was the ghost of his parents lingering over his shoulder, tsking their disapproval over all of this - his choices, what he had done with his inheritance and his life. Those, at least, he was mostly able to ignore.
"For now, that founder needs to see where things go before he could speak further on it." He gave a small, almost sly smile with those words. It felt like so much, almost all of it he couldn't name, was resting on tonight. Like something waiting to happen to lead to something far bigger, be it for better or worse. Yet despite the mixture of emotions within him, he found himself excited. That potential danger might have been a bit of a push along the path leading to Aurus' room that night.
But dinner didn't last long - Charles was a bit on the anxious side to get down too much of a meal and clearly the children were excited from the differences of the day, so the noise and even the pressure of their minds grew to be a bit much. He looked to Aurus and gave a smile of someone who knew they were about to go do work, small and knowing. "I'm going to try to get everything done as quickly as possible, but it will still be a few hours. If you want to explore the library and take something back to your room, I think you would find you have any number of youngsters willing to lead your there. Do you remember how to get back to your room, though?"