Thankfully, Micolash continues to have the social unawareness necessary for Viatorus' strained smile to happen without notice. Instead, he keeps acting like a giddy teen being asked about his crush. His weird, non-human crush.
"Oh no no no, I'm much too old to think about marriage now, aren't I? And at the very least, it was far from uncommon for the members of Mensis to be unwed. We were all too collectively involved with our studies to give it any thought. And besides, Rom is-"
His smile falters and his embarrassed swaying and posture comes to a slow stop. He makes a soft, uncertain laugh as he continues, "She is still existent. In some form or another. Perhaps adrift in the Dream without Her body. Or reforming, or sleeping, in the labyrinth of Lower Pthumeru." He laughs again, the sound a little self-depreciating. "I daren't imagine what She would think, were She to see me again! Not after the Mensis Ritual."
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"Oh no no no, I'm much too old to think about marriage now, aren't I? And at the very least, it was far from uncommon for the members of Mensis to be unwed. We were all too collectively involved with our studies to give it any thought. And besides, Rom is-"
His smile falters and his embarrassed swaying and posture comes to a slow stop. He makes a soft, uncertain laugh as he continues, "She is still existent. In some form or another. Perhaps adrift in the Dream without Her body. Or reforming, or sleeping, in the labyrinth of Lower Pthumeru." He laughs again, the sound a little self-depreciating. "I daren't imagine what She would think, were She to see me again! Not after the Mensis Ritual."