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[virginprice]

[It's late at night and Alcuin is sitting at his console, wrapped up in a cozy charcoal-coloured dressing gown, a cup of tea resting just in front of him. He looks tired, his hair in a bit of a tangle. He was sleeping, after all.]

Is there anyone else about who keeps such late hours? I find myself in need of a bit of conversation, if there is. Come, tell me something interesting.

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[flawedgoods]

[Favrielle's just about to head to bed after a late night of work, but first she's checking on the console. It's then that she sees Alcuin's transmission and she settles into her chair a while. Her expression shows concern as she starts her transmission.]

Are you well, Alcuin?

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[virginprice]

Oh, perfectly well. [He smiles, hiding his anxiety. He knows it's foolish to react to every noise when he's alone with a surge of fear and a racing heart.]

I just woke myself up and couldn't return to sleep, so I thought tea and conversation would be the perfect remedy.

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[Rather than in nightwear, Dorian is dressed as he would be for the day. But then, nights have become his days, and so he is alert and awake. He doesn't want to bother Alcuin about why the boy's awake, so he just starts off, idle.] Something interesting? All right, then. Pick your topic of interest: art and aesthetics, mathematics, economics, religion, philosophy, politics.

[virginprice]

You have presented me with a very difficult choice, Dorian. [He considers them carefully, sipping his tea.] Art and aesthetics, I think. I woke too recently for mathematics.

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[mrsarcastic003]

Well, what do you qualify as interesting?

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[virginprice]

Practically anything. I have very broad interests.

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[poeticverses]

[Jehan looks a bit like he just rolled out of bed. He didn't just wake up, since it's hard to wake up if you never managed to fall asleep in the first place, but he sympathizes]

I have discovered where that monument we could not place is from.

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[virginprice]

[PTSD bros, unite.]

Oh, the statue? What did you find?

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[lecentre]

[Courfeyrac isn't asleep either. He's been having trouble sleeping lately, though he'd hardly admit it to anyone. He's in a pair of slacks with a blanket draped over his shoulders... Stitched wounds visible, but looking as though they're healing as well as can be hoped for by now.]

A bit of conversation would do me wonders right now. What can I tell you?

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[virginprice]

[My, such undress! How daring, Courfeyrac.]

Tell me something from your childhood? Otherwise, I don't know. Whatever you please.

[cynisme]

Cadavers can have erections, that's something interesting.

[He's in a dressing gown as well, something that's a familiar habit of home, even if his one at home was nowhere near as clean and new as this one. Why he's up? Well, sometimes drinking goes wrong and he can't sleep without the world spinning, as if he's on a boat at sea. This is one of those nights.]

[virginprice]

[Alcuin's only response for a long moment is a slow blink. What. the. fuck.]

Indeed? I... had not ever thought about the matter. I had no idea.

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[insecrets]

[What do you know, Finnick keeps terrible hours himself. He runs a hair through his already tousled hair.] Interesting how?

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[virginprice]

I am sure that if you find it interesting, I will too.

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[wintershepherd]

Can't sleep, Alcuin?

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[virginprice]

I woke up and found myself too awake to return to bed.

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[gathersnomoss]

You expect us to know what you find interesting?

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[virginprice]

No, but I would like to hear what you find interesting.

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[suoxi]

Is everything alright?

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[virginprice]

Yes, of course. I just woke up and couldn't fall asleep again. [It's a good thing he's good at lying, because he's doing a lot of it tonight.]

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[aenseidhe]

[ He's tends to not enjoy being around the suite given to him when other people are around. Mainly because they're all human and ew humans. But the space is still valuable, and with the recent cold, sleeping outside has really sucked. Thus, showing up at night grants him the ability to avoid people. And also see this message, activating the console with a small half-smile. ]

What would you like to hear?

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[virginprice]

[Well, Alcuin is happy to see him. Of course, he's happy to see basically everyone.]

Anything you please. Something happy, I think.

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[aloadeddie]

[What the hell? One insomniac to another, right? Arthur's usually up at all hours of the night - when you can't dream properly anymore, well. It's not just dreaming. It disrupts your whole sleep cycle. In addition to being used to taking, well. A lot of naps.]

Lionel and Roger Penrose created the Penrose stairs in 1959, an impossible object based on Roger's earlier conception of a Penrose triangle. M.C. Escher took the design and made use of it the following year in his lithograph Ascending and Descending.

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[virginprice]

An impossible object? What do you mean?

[His interest is certainly piqued!]

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[epigrammatical]

Viens sur mon coeur, âme cruelle et sourde,
Tigre adoré, monstre aux airs indolents;
Je veux longtemps plonger mes doigts tremblants
Dans l'épaisseur de ta crinière lourde;

[He recites this from memory, and the automagic translation renders it into the version of your choice. ]

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[virginprice]

[Poetry! Alcuin loves that.]

Wonderful, Henry. Who wrote it?

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[inseine]

Well, let me see. I can't tell you I am a practiced storyteller.

--Ah! But you know Wotton, I see. What do you think of sordid tales concerning pagan Gods, deviant sexual behaviors, and bloody, messy deaths?

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[virginprice]

I would prefer not to hear of the deaths, if that is possible, but the other factors do not trouble me.