Private Getting to Know Her

"Course. I'm hella curious but I'm not an idiot. And I'm also willing to bet I'll eventually get you to tell me, so I can wait," Adelaida said with a cocksure grin. She didn't want to ruin anything this early, not when she was still figuring out what was safe to poke at and what wasn't. And of course, she was the sort of person that held confidence in herself.

She could wait.

"You're kind of like me, kind of. Always in control. Even when you're drinking, you always say only what you're willing to. Probably a side effect of us both going through some tough stuff, though in my case I've always been like that." Adelaida had another drink, and briefly looked at Aliasse. Nothing about her indicated she was even drinking alcohol. For all Adelaida knew, she might have been drinking apple juice.

"I'm going to guess you've got something else going on too though cause you look like you've just been hydrating on water non-stop instead of drinking. Not sure what it'd be... maybe immunity to 'poisons'? But I know you can port. One of the lucky ones who have multiple abilities maybe..?"

Adelaida shrugged while thinking and popped open another bottle. Whatever it was, Aliasse surpassed her in drink capacity by seemingly a large margin, and Adelaida wasn't going to let her guest go on lacking.

Adelaida watched with interest and listened as her companion shared what she was capable of. At the very least, there was much more utility to Aliasse's abilities than her own, and she briefly felt jealous. She'd lost that utility a while back, after all.

"Cool stuff. Useful stuff. You're probably aware but my abilities aren't as practical... arson's not really a useful thing in the line of work of a burger flipper."

She could definitely feel a little buzz coming on, and she thought of how it would feel to be immune to getting drunk. Plenty of people she'd met and spent the night with would like that kind of ability.

With a smile, she poured out a little more liquor. "So I guess you auto-win in the drinking match, but it's been a while since I've had someone who could keep up with me. Hope you don't mind a bit more drink."

She shrugged as she took another drink. "Kind of sad that there's no in vino veritas in store but I'm having a good enough time to let that be if I'm being honest."

"Hmm. Problem about me being drunk is it doesn't really change a thing, it just makes me slightly red. I always cut loose exactly as much as I intend to, and sometimes I too envy people who get silly or out of control when drunk. Guess that makes us kinda the same. Can't remember the last time I did something I wasn't okay with - well, other than the whole... incident."

Adelaida drank more. She was a heavy drinker to begin with, and tonight she wanted to do even just one thing that she wasn't in full control of. But she had long lost the ability to cut loose like that.

"I slept around and went on nights on the town a lot, and picked up all sorts of hobbies like baking and at some point blacksmithing, but none of that was from the influence of alcohol. Sorry to disappoint," she said with a little grin, nudging the bottle of whiskey closer Aliasse's way.

"Plus side though is when I say I'm interested in you, you know it's not the whiskey talking."

"I don't really bluff. I'm too tired by mental wrestling with a sentient arson creature to mince my words," Adelaida said with a soft yawn. "Interested in your story, and as of the moment, you."

Adelaida leaned in a little closer, trying to find the best distance to balance her interest in closeness with the social need to respect personal space. "I'd say I'm enamored, but... Still haven't figured out what exactly it is about you that draws me in. Not going to lie, having no clue spooks me as someone who's proud of how well I know myself... and it's pretty damn exciting to me."

She drank a little more and felt the looseness starting to kick in on her tongue. "Exciting, but at the same time it's uncomfortable. There's that fear that it's just the obsession of the week and that it'll fade, and if I'm being honest, I don't want that. It's probably shooting my chances down too cause I can't confirm if I'm trying to get in it for the long haul. What I can confirm though is that yeah, I'm pretty smitten at the moment. We'll see how that progresses."

"Course, if you're not interested in any of that, it's as easy as you saying so and we'll cut it at that, and stick to trying to get a chill night with a bathtub of whiskey."

"Aha. That's about as good a response as I was trying not to look forward to, so that's nice. My predictions were just a flat no nine out of ten tries."

Adelaida briefly - very briefly - tried to hide her elation, but then realized that hiding things just wasn't quite... her.

She loosened up a bit and sank into the couch with a massive grin. She took another drink and breathed out. It wasn't until the moment actually came that she realized that she was actually tense, and for a while she amused herself with the realization that she wasn't fully in control for the first time in quite a while.

"Huh. Guess I was nervous. Didn't really notice."

The silence stewed for a brief moment, and stopped with another exhalation. "Wow. Can't remember the last time I was this stoked for something as simple as being friends. You know, the starting line for most connections. What've you done to me, woman?" she said, laughing to herself.

Everything was out of place, and it felt inviting.