Continued...

[kouros]

From here

[He smiles]

You're welcome, Orpheus.

[He pushes open the door to his apartment, making a face as he gestures to a door]

I hate this place. My room's over there.

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[kouros]

It's fine. The thought means just as much.

[The drops dry up before they hit the ground]

Besides, this is less messy.

[golden_lyre]

So many things are these days.

[He's not sure that's a good thing, but he's not going to dwell on the thought as he takes his first sip of wine.]

[kouros]

Are what? Messy?

[golden_lyre]

No, less messy than they used to be.

[kouros]

Really? I find all the government and expectations and expanse of everything now to be much messier than the old days.

[golden_lyre]

No, I mean literally less messy. Nothing's quite as visceral as it used to be.

[kouros]

Oh...well, yes, there's that. I'm not sure if I miss those days or if I'm thankful that Hygenia isn't complaining about the filth everywhere.

[golden_lyre]

I like vacuum cleaners...

[kouros]

[That just makes him laugh]

Really?

[golden_lyre]

Yeah. [He laughs.] Now I don't have to beat my rugs.

Plus, they make them automatic now.

[kouros]

Of all the things to like in the modern world.

[He just laughs again]

It's not the television or the pornography or the internet like everyone else?

[golden_lyre]

There's never anything good on television. The porn's all right, but the internet...well, it's all right for porn, but the people are idiots.

[kouros]

They really, really are.

[He moves closer, taking Orpheus's hand]

So, you do watch adult movies?

[golden_lyre]

[He shrugs, weaving his fingers through Apollo's.]

Sometimes? Not all that often, really.

[kouros]

Don't tell Erato. She gets upset when family doesn't like her "work".

[golden_lyre]

I prefer to participate rather than watch.

[He smiles in a way that says he is perfectly confident in his ability to find a willing partner whenever he wants one.]

[kouros]

Oh, really?

[He likes that smile]

Three thousand years of practice?

[golden_lyre]

Well, not an entire three thousand years.

[kouros]

Close enough?

[golden_lyre]

I took a few years off now and then.

[kouros]

Oh, a few years off. I see. So two thousand and eighty, then?

[golden_lyre]

Not that many years off.

[kouros]

Oh, you have been active, then.

[He sets his wineglass aside and pulls Orpheus closer]

[golden_lyre]

Had to do something with all that time.

[His voice is just a little breathless as he shifts closer.]

[kouros]

Or someone, hm?

[He smiles and pulls him in for a kiss]