Originally Posted by Sini
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What a touching and happy moment! I would love to steal this and keep it as a keepsake...galehearteyes They look at each other with such love and adorable gentle smiles... Astarion is definitely astarionhappy astarionhappy.

Originally Posted by Sini
Meanwhile, our three little heroes are on their way to the basement of the palace...

"Do you think my dad is mad at us again and will punish us?"

"Believe me, little one," the cat replies, "your dad is busy with other things and has forgotten what you were doing. Didn't you see how they looked at each other? I bet they're having s*x now."

"I've heard of that, but I'm not sure what it is. I think it's some kind of game and has something to do with candies. They sound like they're having fun and say something like "My sweet"."

Sceleritas and the cat shake their heads vigorously. Sceleritas smiles slyly. "When we get back, tell your father your thoughts and ask him if you understand correctly, my little bloody master."

The cat and Sceleritas giggle as they continue down the steps.

"My sweet"… shadowheartgiggle

“Fun at all, lots of fun!” - the cat made a satisfied face. “But candies... Nah, candies are for teenagers. Mice! Mice are what real adult experienced women are interested in, trust me, bro!” The cat meowed confidently and rubbed himself against the kid's legs. “I'll tell you what, so you don't suffer from a broken heart, keep the candies for yourself...”

“Yes, yes, I can do that! Easily and gladly!” Joyfully exclaimed Astarion Jr.

“Good thinking, kid, just don't interrupt...” The cat stretched, yawned, and with the look of an experienced teacher of life, continued. “To impress a lady - give her a bouquet of mice! Not just one small mouse, be a man, don't be trifling on gifts - it should be a big exquisite and worthy bouquet of fresh mice! Fresh, right after the hunt! Chic - if they'll be different colors, girls really appreciate it when a tough guy...” The cat proudly pounded his chest with his paw, obviously hinting at which of the guys here was the toughest. “... Demonstrates excellent manners and exquisite taste. But! To avoid screwing up, the bouquet needs to be presented properly, so take all your mice that you just caught and put their heads in your mouth, so that the tails stick out nicely in different directions. You can weave the tails into the shape of a heart, if your paws are dexterous enough for that... And, so, you come up to a beautiful girl, you have a lot of mice in your mouth with their tails sticking out, and she...”

“Enough!!!” Sceleritas gagged the cat with his hands and once again cursed as the cat didn't fail to bite him on this occasion. “Little Lord, you'd better ask your daddy about this after all...”

“Here it is!” The kid forgot about the advice of the cat and Sceleritas, finding his backpack on the floor, covered in a layer of dust, but whole. “Yay!” He grabbed it with a satisfied look and started checking the contents. “Nice pebbles in place, nice bones I found too... A book of some sort, I never got around to reading it... 'Confessions of an Ancient Vampire, and why everyone around here is exceptional...' Too bad the mice chewed it up, I can't read it all the way through...” The boy opened the first page: “I decided to lie in the coffin until midnight. Maybe by then half the world will be extinct and it will be half as nasty to tolerate the rest... And you, if you're reading this, you're a little piece of... Sceleritas! Give me the book! I was wondering, a piece of what?”

A sleepy and angry mouse poked its head out of the backpack and wanted to quarrel, but when it saw the cat, it shrieked fearfully and ran away. The cat rushed in pursuit, tripped over Sceleritas, knocked him down, and the book flew far away into a dusty corner. “You just got lucky, loser!” Meowed the cat in the wake of the fleeing mouse. “I didn't really feel like it!” Sceleritas tried to throw the cat off before his claws finally ruined his suit. Astarion Jr. was shaking the dust off his backpack with a satisfied face and was perfectly happy.

One life, one love - until the world falls down.