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Charlie, at the piano, scribbling in his notebook between trying out chords and notes.

If there's a better way to be, he hasn't found it.

[ooc: this is mainly for Lochiel and Charlie to finally meet. Mun is also leaving to go home in about 2 minutes, and so begs slowtime for the next half hour or so. Mun apologizes deeply for planning her day so poorly.]

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Charlie nods slowly. "Okay. See, where I come from, this kind of thing doens't happen at all, so I have no idea what to think. All I know is some bloke I don't know can feel what my boyfriend's thinking and feeling and it doesn't exactly sit well with me." His fingers fumble a moment but he recovers.

"I want you to understand I love him very much," he says more quietly. "And if this hurts him in any way I'll be very unhappy."

"It's not quite like that. I can't tell what he's thinking unless he directs thoughts to me, and I can only pick up strong emotions. I block it most of the time, when I can."

He sighs. "I didn't exactly ask for this, you know. And I don't want to hurt him."

Charlie stops playing the Solindish song and starts playing one of the songs he wrote for Bartleby instead.

"If you say so."

"Don't you think I'd break this thing if I knew how? Bartleby is a nice fellow but I don't particularly enjoy being linked to anyone."

"Too indepentdent?" He's not smiling.

"I prefer my space." Neither is he.

"I'll keep B out of your hair, then.

"We're going away for a few days, probably at the end of the week. We're going to my home. Just to check on things. So."

He shrugs.

"I don't have any claim on him. He doesn't have to tell me what he's doing."

Charlie nods and resumes playing the Solindish song.

His voice is very small when he says, "Is he happy?"

"He says he is. I won't pry into his feelings, that's not for me to do." Quietly, "he says he loves you. I believe him."

This finally gets a smile.

Lochiel offers a tentative smile in return.

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