I met a traveller from an antique land

[patricide]

Who: Lex and Adrian
What: Great Ozymandias finds a fitting place to stay
Where: The House of Ego
When: Veerdi, a week since their last big chat
Notes: none
Warnings: none

It's not the larger-than-a-doorway pharaoh head that that had been discussed during the decorating process. (Discussions entailing several similar rounds of Adrian bringing up the subject and Lex putting his foot down with a resounding no.) After their agreement it was only fitting that the occasion be marked somehow. While they were still business partners, what was discussed extended far beyond figures and notes. Baedal didn't yet know it, but it housed two men who would not only change the world, but shape it under their own design.

In celebration of this alliance, Adrian will not see a head outside the main doorway. Instead what he will see is a bust seated on a tall rectangular slab of marble inside his own portion of the upper floor. There is no note or object next to the statue, it's simply there as it always should have been. When Adrian returns home he will find Lex practicing his pool shots in his own penthouse.

Comments

[defenestration]

"Completely by accident." Adrian is rather pleased they decided to go ahead and take the direct walk home, rather than the slightly quicker but less direct and less pleasant route by train. "I decided not to change trains on my way home one day and walk through some of the neighborhoods near ours instead, and I happened across it. It's not a regular haunt by any means, but they have excellent vegetarian dishes. And the decor reminds me of a place I've been to in Prague."

He turns his head toward Lex, recalling the offer to join him for dinner there again in the future. "I may make it a more regular thing, however, if I have an excuse to eat in the main dining room again."

[patricide]

"Fridays like this are usually fit nicely into my schedule." He knows very well that in Baedal it's Veerdi, but he and Adrian come from roughly the same world where the word Friday has meaning beyond two nice sounding syllables. It's refreshing to be able to share words from home with someone who understands exactly what they mean.

There's a slight quirk of the lips as Lex looks sideways to regard Adrian. "Aimery's going to start getting used to having nights off."