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[ He's haphazardly dressed in something that could be considered vintage pieces of a noble era long gone. A tiny little glass of liquor by a bottle of it. To the side lay a small plate of smoked meat and a pen and a paper with notes and scribbling inside and this is all that occupies the otherwise open table.

He puts the pen down and looks outward with a calm exhale. ] What philosophies shape your life?

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[ The unexpectedness of that answer gets a laugh that has one foot in deadened territory, but on the other hand, it is also genuinely entertained. Not something he meant to do, but Fabian startled it out of him before he could put something more appropriate together. ]

Oh, maybe I do have the techniques.

[ He drinks again, easy about it, then sets about detaching bite-sized portions from the piece he took. ]

I'm going to pretend it's something actually endearing, as opposed to what endearments always end up being, something bizarre.

[ Watch your step lest you be caught off guard. He calmly lays the side of his cheek on a propped up fist. ]

Perhaps. [ a beat ] Well, it's nothing to do with pigs.

[ That's right. There are Swedish endearments that include piggery. ]

Touching. [ Nate puts a piece in his mouth, unsure whether his fiddling with it helped or made things worse when it comes to the meat aversion he's still working on, but he'll eat all of it regardless. ] Narrow it down for me. Vertebrate or invertebrate?

[ One German endearment is, after all, "snail." ]

[ He observes this with faint interest before mentioning: ] They have a menu and some of it even lacks meat.

[ A brief pause and then again ] It means darling, more or less. One of those normal endearments.

Does it?

[ As if he has no idea why Fabian might mention that fact. He eats another piece with deliberation. What exactly that's meant to prove (or to whom it's supposed to prove anything), who knows. ]

Well... that's gratifying, and I choose to never look it up on the internet to keep it that way.

It does sound better in Swedish — it was that, right? [ A twitch of the good old mostly-monolingual-American panic, there. ]

[ Just an observation. He picks at piece of meat himself. ]

You relieve me. Ja, it's Swedish.

[ It's not as disturbing as it could be. Perfectly bearable, as long as he keeps talking. ]

Good. Sorry. Pretty tone deaf for languages. Anyway. I'll let you get back to whatever — [ He inclines his head at the notebook. ] and quit putting off errands.

[ He looks up at Nate again for a moment. ] It's been misinterpreted for other languages by many people, you would not be the first.

[ a beat ] Perhaps wise. Putting something off will sadly not make it disappear.

[ That comment makes him go still for just a moment, less than a second. But it's just one of those things people say, that happens to ring more true than usual right now, all the more for being unexpected. He gives Fabian an odd little half-smile and stands, leaving his drink. ]

Sadly. See you around.

[ You're welcome. ] I'm around. Drop by sometime, hm?

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