→ i've lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times

[thedominatrix]

Who: Irene Adler & Sebastian LeMat.
What: 'Have you graduated to stealing towns yet?' and other vital existential questions.
Where: Irene's apartment, Syriac Well.
When: Not too long after this.
Warnings: None.

For all the outward shimmer, Irene Adler is an intensely scheduled person. Her work, her play- it's all carefully organised so as to maximise her efficiency and minimise her chances of ever waking up to the sound of Militia boots on her floorboards, or worse. And Baedal can always offer worse, no matter what rock bottom one tries to imagine. It's all stored in her phone. She wasn't lying when she called it her life- she meant it in a rather more dramatic sense, of course, but there was always the simple matter of convenience.

Sebastian isn't named in the virtual diary- no one is- but he's there, his visit expected and arranged for and privately extremely welcome for reasons which go beyond simple curiosity as to what leaving and returning was like. He's odd, is the slightly petulant but exceedingly fond description of him Irene has settled upon; it's meant to be a temporary description only. She'll find something more fitting later. In the mean time, it's a compliment. Odd is interesting. She's missed him. After all, in her dizzying serious-unserious world, she's often surrounded by people who haven't even stolen a street.

She answers the door in clothes casual enough to just pass for I threw this on unthinkingly, which is flattering nonsense. The very first thing he gets is a kiss on the cheek. "Look at you, dear. I stand by previous comments. Do come in."