[Locked to Yasmeen] shopping?

[st_eadfast]

On the currency and action scales, following Yasmeen - Captain Corsair - had been as satisfactory as Ignis had hoped. Sufficient action for sufficient reward, and now all that was left was working out what to do with said reward. Hoarding it would serve little purpose, as money was of little use in the Inn... and, truly, it wasn't difficult to think of a good way to spend at least some of his share.

But to do so properly, he would need help. In short order, Ignis had narrowed down the best options to help him down to either Miss Fisher or Captain Corsair. Which was a far less difficult decision than he'd thought, given Miss Fisher's occasional tendency towards opacity of dialogue. Besides, he had a shrewd idea of where the good Captain would be found.

Returned to the Inn and her Raleigh, but she would be in the Cafe so as not to seem like she'd done anything as emotional as miss someone. And, indeed, she was in what was fast becoming her usual corner. "Captain, what a pleasure to find you. Do you have a moment?"

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[captaincorsair]

"...wait." Yasmeen actually stopped in her tracks and put a hand on his arm. "Do you mean to tell me you've never been with anyone? Please, please tell me that I wasn't the first time you'd been kissed." She'd actually feel bad about that, but on the other hand, at least she'd not been offended when he definitely didn't have any interest.

[st_eadfast]

"Never fear, you're off that particular hook." Even if there hadn't been random idiot games he'd been more or less pressured into at various parties he'd been forced to attend as a youth, Vax's incident with whatever had been going on that day had been before hers.

[captaincorsair]

"Even so." Yasmeen shook her head and touched his elbow to indicate she meant to move forward again through the crowd. "Wanting a plan and refusing to act in the absence of one are two separate things. Either plan, or take a leap of faith and trust your skills and your friends to lift you if you fall."

[st_eadfast]

And neither of those options seemed possible, really. How could one plan for a possibility that had been impossible hours before? Or rely on skills that didn't exist and....

He'd make himself crazy, or crazier, trying to chase any of that down. Certainly he'd wear further at Yasmeen's non-infinite patience. "At the very least the books are because he is my friend. It is best, perhaps, if I don't make anyone including myself more insane than that." It wasn't a 'no' or 'never', but more 'we'll irritate each other if we keep on'.

[captaincorsair]

Yasmeen snorted quietly, rolled her eyes, and pressed forward along the avenue to the bookshop. The saying about horses and water apparently applied to companions and sex, too.