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    Ratio raised his own glass with some reluctance, and with the rest of them, took a sip—

    —just as something slimy rolled down his tongue.

    He swallowed. It felt a little bit like a spot of phlegm that would build up during a cold. He cleared his throat, once, twice.

    “Avent—” he tried, before sound closed up and he grabbed at his neck, choking on a cough that would not come.

    “...Ratio?”

    Heimlich maneuver. He could—he could do it with the chair, Ratio thought, but he could not pry his own hand from futilely scratching at his throat. It would be no use. He could feel it, the phlegm growing in his throat, expanding up the back of his tongue and down his esophagus, like something more unnatural than a common bit of food.

    A hostile Borisin ship is an unfortunate place to navigate the fragile beginnings of a new relationship, and perhaps an even more unfortunate place to be assassinated.

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    Ratio didn’t respond, instead brushing the hair from Aventurine’s eyes so tenderly that it hurt. Aventurine should have known Ratio wouldn’t be so easily distracted. Ratio cupped Aventurine’s face, looking him in the eye like a lover. Like an equal.

    Aventurine had to blink back tears.

    “Aventurine,” Ratio said, soft, sincere. But then, Ratio was always sincere with him when it counted, “Dearest.”

    That nickname. It was stupid to get so emotional over it. And yet.

    Aventurine took a shuddering breath, “Yes?”

    His heart was pounding almost painfully. He cared about Ratio way too much.

    Ratio held him like he was everything and said, “You need more friends.”

    In which, at Ratio's insistence, Aventurine tries to make some friends.

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    “You look nice,” Boothill blurts.

    Fuck no. A notification pops in the corner of his vision that reads in loud letters: Shut your fucking trap.

    Surprise flits about Argenti’s features, seeming to bounce between a few different emotions before finally setting on bashful.

    “Such a compliment is unusual,” he says, after a moment, “especially from an honest soul such as yourself. I am honored to be held in such regard from someone I treasure dearly, and someone with as much passion for life as you.”

    “I jus’ said you looked nice,” Boothill says lowly, picking at the threads of his pants.

    “Did you mean it?”

    “Why, ‘course.”

    “Precisely,” Argenti says, as if that explains it all.

    After the cults have been disbanded and the leads have been followed, Boothill finds himself stuck in Penacony against his will due to a blunder in the system. To make it worse, he has to survive the week in the company of Argenti—a Knight of Beauty who seems a bit too keen on making his acquaintance.

    or: Two lonely men are shoved into a hotel for a week, and they both learn some new things.

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    Funny, ain't it? The ghosts people see, the way the damn things follow 'em through the cosmos. He never thought the pretty lil' song bird had some of her own.

    Hell, never even stopped to consider it. Now that they're strapped in together, nothin' but space and the metal walls around 'em, though?

    The both of 'em are learnin'.

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    When he finds his dearest human getting attacked by some crooks, Madeleine is quick to come to his defense.

    Even if said aid proves to be … more violent than what Espresso had expected.

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