Video, Monday week 84: When you're sixteen (going on seventeen)

[infourbooks]

[Filtered from Tenel Ka]

[In a highly shocking turn of events, Neville looks nervous.]

So. Uh. Convergence.

And the festival.

[He has the flower situation well under control. And nothing else.]

What are you supposed to... do, when you take a girl to a party like that? I've got dancing down, but that's about it...

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[infourbooks]

A suit? I usually wear robes...

[Muggle things are just as confusing as girls.]

Dancing's a start, right?

[standsentinel]

Ah.

[Robes, as it turns out, are not all that common in Kaidan's sartorial circle of acquaintance. Unless one counts salarian council wear, and that sort of context is decidedly not about attracting a date's attention. He recovers without too long of a pause.]

Well, all the more reason to get one, then. She won't expect it, and that's the kind of surprise people tend to be OK with having sprung on them.

[infourbooks]

It would be nice to surprise her for a change.

[He's going to get a suit. What is that?]

She's really good at moving silently.

[Also he's really good at getting engrossed in plants]

[standsentinel]

Hazards of dating women from martial backgrounds. Shapard-- Well, the Shepard from my home reality-- [This is not getting any less awkward with the telling. Kaidan persists, for the sake of the story.] is an infiltrator. In the military I serve in, that means the ability to move silently and in stealth, and she had a tendency to practice it on board ship between missions. Unnerving as hell, and she'd laugh her ass off if she caught you off guard.

[infourbooks]

She doesn't laugh, at least. She... has this face, she makes. It's...

[Cute is not the word for Tenel Ka. But he's charmed by the face.]