[voice]; un: TheChancellor

[profanation]

[ The words are spoken with a lingering, loving attention. Every syllable is caressed by the tongue and lips before being allowed out. There's even a slight pause between words that makes the sentence measured and slow, like someone reading a line from an erotic novel. ]

You are now aware of your tongue.

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[menphina]

[ Her ears lift up in surprise, not that he can see it. ]

Huh, you too? Like Prince Noctis! He was from Eos as well. At least, we'd heard as much when he showed up in Eorzea.

[ She followed the papers. ]

Saw him running around with our Warrior of Light, too. Who'd have thought he was a traveler like that. Who are you, then?

[profanation]

[ Noctis had gone somewhere else before he came here? What, taken from the crystal? Or had it been some vision of Bahamut's, to show another world where a similar darkness grew and boiled? But... no, that couldn't be right. Bahamut would not allow Noctis to set foot in a world where his counterpart had been used as a battery, where gods were malleable and formed by desperation, as petty and mutable as those who summoned them.

So had Eorzea, this land of the primal Hydalean, brought Noctis to it in the same way this one had brought them all here? It might be worth looking into.

He'd have to ask him about it.

In the meantime: ]

Ah, that sounds like my dear nephew. Always so full of surprises!

[menphina]

Your nephew?

[ She repeats that curiously. ]

Well, it's not like I actually know him personally. I've just met his friends and seen him at a distance. What do you call yourself then?

[profanation]

My nephew!

[ He answers, mostly untruthfully. ]

I'm his dear uncle Ardyn. We get on like a house on fire.

[menphina]

Somehow the thought of houses on fire doesn't seem very appealing in forming connections.

[ Well, whatever floats his boat. ]

Now I want to see what you look like! It's not often I hear of family members ending up in places like these!

[profanation]

[ Hence the choice. ]

Do you! Why, hoping I'm doe eyed and dark haired too?

[menphina]

That's almost a creepy way to refer to your nephew, you know.

[ Just saying, Bro. ]

But a lot of my girls didn't look like their relatives at all. My family on the other hand does. Now I have to see if you're the same!

[profanation]

I know.

[ People here are just wired to think of sex at all times. The place had either got to them quickly, or they'd already been there when they arrived. As if 'doe-eyed' initially meant anything of that sort, and not just 'gentle'. ]

And do you? Well, I'm sure it'll happen one day! It's not so huge a city, after all.

[menphina]

[ She's always been, but sex and intimacy have never been a big deal for her. With a slight sigh, she says- ]

You're going to shy away now? You've kind of made your voice more than memorable here, though.

[ Pesky miqo'te hearing. ]

What's with the secrecy?

[profanation]

"Shy away"? I haven't shown my face on here yet! I can hardly be shying away by refusing to do so now.

[ He gave a little chuckle. ]

Besides, it's not as if I'm hard to find.

[menphina]

Come now, what else would you call someone who's fine sharing their voice without sharing their face? I'd call that shy!

[ She sounds cheery enough, clearly not minding. ]

How would you be found, then?

[profanation]

I'd call you wrong!

[ He chuckles, making his rebuke sound playful. ]

If you're desperate to see me, you could always come to the Lunar Scientia.

[menphina]

Then you just have to be more open-minded!

[ And now she's curious, anyway. ]

May as well. I'm done with work for the sun anyroad. You should tell me more about your Eos, too. Might even get some inspiration for some writing I want to do. Where would I find you in that place?

[profanation]

Come now, it's hardly any fun if I just tell you where to find me! Some of the effort has to be on your part, you know!

[menphina]

I mean, I don't have to, I just found myself with a spot of free time. And it'd be a waste to look and not find you for time I could spend.. oh, eating something delicious.

[ What to do... Is she curious enough. ]

Which means whenever I do find you, then we've got to eat!!

[profanation]

Well now, I suppose that's some incentive!

[ It wasn't. Everything tasted like nothing at all these days. But it was something to do, and it never hurt to make more connections in a place like this. ]

Very well. You can ask at the desk for Ardyn Izunia. I'm sure you'll eventually be directed to my grand office space.