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"A cheat!" Iris laughs, "But I see nothing that is different about the -- Oh."

There are hidden places in the room. The trunk, under the bed. And a whole other room adjacent besides.

Eyes narrowing playfully at Charles, "Perhaps I am destined for puzzles and searching."

"Only in the interest of making you smile. That sounds like a nice way to spend the night,"

He pulls off his shoes and rests his jacket on a chair before sitting and watching her.

Iris contorts to look under the bed and pulls out a swath of fabric in a deep aubergine - a silk robe. For a little later, she smiles, laying it on the bed next to her.

Standing now, it might be time to investigate the trunk.

Charles smiles at her and eats some bread with olive oil as he's hungry and this is wonderful.

The trunk has...boxes, Iris thinks at first. But they're games. Go, chess, and underneath other games Iris can't read are large-format photography books.

"Oh Charles, come look!"

Some of the games are familiar and he grins at the chess set before coming over,

"Oh, those are lovely. The Hudson valley, that's where I grew up."

"Really?" Iris looks at the book mentioned when she puts aside a Tour Guide to the Xarplox System book. "You can tell me stories about the places there."

Iris grabs that one, along with the chess set and a couple other books to take them back over to the bed.

"I will. I wonder if they have a picture of our house, sometimes it ends up in these sorts of books. Mother always liked showing it off on garden and house tours."

There is easily an hour spent in the Hudson Valley book alone, asking about everything from geography to how the paper in the book is so shiny.

The information session devolves at that point to Iris popping pineapple chunks into her mouth.

Which Charles helps with as the book is between them and they're in each others laps as he kisses the pineapple juice off her fingers.

Iris' two front teeth rest on her bottom lip when Charles takes her fingertips in his mouth.

"You are certainly distracting."

"I said that I would be and I do my best to only say what I mean,"

He licks her fingers and then kisses the top of her hand.

"As do I, Charles."

Iris offers up an olive for Charles to take from her hand.

"Which is what I love about you,"

After a moment of positioning, he takes the olive with his mouth.

Iris doesn't whimper.

That wouldn't be seemly.

Charles doesn't mind about seemly and finishes the olive before kissing her.

Charles is so quiet. Quiet and grounding and solid.

Thank you for this.

You're welcome. He's glad that he can do something.

"Should I investigate one of the games?"

"I'll teach you how to play chess, its one of my favorites."

"Why don't you set it up somewhere?"

Iris parts from Charles pretty much to move the tray somewhere near the front door of the apartment, and to change into the robe from earlier.

The robe is lovely and he sets up the board on a low table while admiring her, he can set up a chess board with almost muscle memory at this point.

Edited 2012-06-03 01:53 (UTC)

I am going to attempt to cheat, you realize.

Smiling as she sits down across from him.

Its not an easy game to cheat at.

"Do not underestimate my abilities."