Sooner or later it comes down to fate

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Who: Sol Badguy (firesealed) and Ky Kiske (juste_ou_mort)
Universe: Zodion, and continued from a log started there
What: Sol, Ky, awkward date night

Sol's not used to Ky joking, no, hasn't spent the time around him in a casual sort of setting to really have any idea what his sense of humor is actually like these days. Though that fact is starting to shift too, with the way that Zodion is pressing them together.

And yeah, kid, there's something a little pointless to giving as much as he can to everything he does, regardless of if the venture demands that sort of effort or not. Sol would disagree, but it's not an argument worth having, mostly because of that whole point of throwing good energy after bad, and how much Sol isn't interested in that.

Sol gestures at a waiter, taking Ky at face value. He wants his food, not to make more idle chitchat. He orders quickly, and yes, he's having beer with dinner. Maybe he should have ordered some for the boy scout as well, he could use to loosen up, but that brings his mind back to the fact that this is a set-up for a date and he doesn't really need Ky loosening up in his general direction.

So he'll just tear into the basket of bread that the waiter brought instead.

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[firesealed]

It's not all all appropriate to bring up here, not appropriate to talk about at all.

Shouldn't have happened, it was a mistake, and a stupid one.

Sol knows that refusing to address things doesn't generally make Ky drop them, but it does mean that they're discussing how Sol won't respond, instead of the thing that Sol doesn't want to talk about. Better, in some ways.

He's got his food to focus on now, to ignore Ky with, so he will, shoveling it into his mouth in a way not fit for polite company, but that should get him out of here that much sooner.

[juste_ou_mort]

For once, Ky doesn't really blame Sol for wanting to avoid the topic. Doesn't get as bent out of shape over the way he doesn't say a word. But all the same, there's a quiet sense of rejection in that, and Ky isn't even sure why. It isn't the usual that he gets from being shut down (because somehow, Sol has his respect and he trusts the man, and it can smart now and again whenever he's reminded that it doesn't go both ways), but that's probably the fault of the subject he tried to broach. Or at least, that's what it seems like.

But the fact is that it happened and Ky wants to straighten it out in words, not just dismissal and shame. Because that's part of the issue, isn't it? Shame.

Ky sets his wine glass down before he takes too much of it at once.

He distracts himself from those thoughts with a disapproving look shot at Sol; really, he can eat however he wants provided he remembers how to be an adult at the table. Not that Ky thinks Sol'd even give any such scolding the time of day, so rather than voicing it, Ky turns his attention to his meal and eating it in a way better suited to polite company.

[firesealed]

Talking about this sort of thing never helped anyone, not unless they were talking about it with the intent to get to rings and promises, and Sol's entire reaction to that could be summed up with a simple hell no.

This wasn't a relationship, wasn't anything except a mistake to indulge the kid as much as he had (and Sol had ignored and would keep ignoring the fact that it had felt like just as much of an indulgence for him, or maybe even more of one). It's the sort of thing that Sol should feel shame over, the sort of thing that it's better to just not dwell on at all.

Sol ignores the kid's look, same way he would have ignored whatever scolding he might have done, same way he ignores the way the kid is going to passive-aggressively eat his own food.

He wants to get through his own meal before the kid is done eating (although that shouldn't matter, Ky'll either wait for him (probably) or he won't (less likely)).