Verse 04 -- Video

[poeticverses]

[Compared to Jehan's last post a week or so ago, he looks much better. He's slept, he's eaten, and he's up for trying to interact with people again. He smiles a bit shyly when the feed clicks on, blushing as he usually is]

I wanted to apologize if my...behavior last month upset anyone. I was not feeling well and wasn't thinking clearly. I hope that anyone I upset or worried can forgive me. Ah...and I wanted to thank everyone who offered assistance. I am--it was greatly appreciated.

[Understatement of the centuries. This is followed by some private messages, all of which are absurdly easy to crack. The guy's from 1832. He's just happy he can make the private.]

[Original Amis sans Marius]

[The smile's gone, and Jehan is serious]

I wanted to...to remind everyone that should you feel as I did last month I am here to listen or talk or simply keep you company. I know what happens when you shut yourself away, now. I do not want that to happen to any of you.

[Dorian Gray]

[Shyly:]

Is it too late to accept your offer of that flute, Dorian?

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[depicted]

I imagine you'd look very pretty in a poet's laurels. The inheritor of Greek and Roman poetry.

[poeticverses]

Second only to Apollo himself and the greatest poet in all the land?

[depicted]

[Dorian grins, unable not to tease him.] Your poetry's fair, Jehan, but you aren't Keats.

[poeticverses]

I am not striving to be Keats. Let him be the greatest English poet. I will happily take the title of greatest French poet.

[depicted]

That title has to stay with Baudelaire, I'm afraid.

[poeticverses]

Oh, how you wound me, Dorian.

[depicted]

Will you forgive me if I tend to those wounds?

[poeticverses]

I am not sure you will be able to. You have hurt me very deeply, here.

[He rests a hand over his heart[

[depicted]

Oh, I think I can take care of that. The heart heals best when it's beating hard.

[poeticverses]

Does it now?

[And there's his blush.]

I always thought it healed best when at rest.

[depicted]

Exactly the opposite. It's a muscle, you see, and those demand exercise for health.

[poeticverses]

So perhaps I should go for a brisk walk, then.

[depicted]

Could be dangerous. You might meet a handsome man along the way.

[poeticverses]

I am certain I could take care of myself should that happen. I simply need to start going on about the gods and poetry.

[Oh Dorian]

[depicted]

We handsome men are not easily deterred.

[poeticverses]

Oh, not the truly handsome men, no. But that is a particularly rare and unique breed.

[depicted]

Fortunately, you've met one such.

[poeticverses]

[He blushes]

I have indeed. But the question is--will I meet him should I go for a walk today?

[depicted]

Do you wish to?

[poeticverses]

I do, in fact.

[depicted]

Then I think perhaps you shall come across one fitting such a description.

[poeticverses]

Well, I hope he knows where to find me in the Wood Sector, then.

[depicted]

I rather think he does.

[And will, immediately.]