"And Laurence can't quite figure out how to frown as a dragon and doesn't WANT to and he KNOWS it's his duty but :( :( :(" But luckily Tem and Jane and Granby look out for him.
"I'm sure that Temeraire was eavesdropping at the window as subtly as a several-ton heavyweight dragon can." OMG HE WAS. He's bigger than the BUILDING they were using. "But it's not as if anybody can budge him. Also, when the most likely candidate isn't cooperating with the plan to give Laurence a captain... GIVE UP HOPE." Temeraire looks quite enraged enough to knock the damn thing down. If they will not treat Laurence right, then they both will leave, and Lily has said that she will not give them any eggs if they are going to raise them that way.
"(also, the return of Granby's pejorative SIR used against someone else = WIN)" When Jane tells the story later, she doesn't quite grasp the significance, but Granby goes beet red and Laurence cheers up a little.
"Ooh! I've read a lot of the series that Tamora Pierce wrote; she was my favourite author in junior high. I don't think I progressed to the Trickster series, though I have to, now. :)" It's awesome! Very much feels more grown-up than the rest, there's a lot of politics and actual overthrow of the government and it's ALANNA AND GEORGE'S BABY GIRL. She's awesome. She wants to be a spy. They both said no. They seemed to think it would work.
She's Alanna and George's kid, they said no, and... yeah. They had it coming, as much as they get upset about the way it happened.
"But you're so right. You have to go about this delicately." Fast relationships don't usually last, and Tem is very, very serious.
";_; But oh man, when you FINALLY get to that bit, it will be all the more romantic/awesome/sweet because of it." Tem does back way off, and gradually Laurence gets more comfortable initiating more of the affectionate displays and risky flying manoeuvers (too lazy to get the Brit version properly right now) and Laurence gets that look of "I'm going to mess this up but I don't care right now.
The best romances start that way--one book, the two characters weren't face-to-face until 200 pages in, and didn't touch for 60 more pages. Doubly for this-- Laurence is a gentleman, still, and even if there were some brief adventures with boys, it was probably quite practical and hand-for-hand. (There aren't any girls, at all, and that type of thing was rather common. Outright anal intercourse, however, was NOT encouraged to the point that you could be killed for it (can't find my source, I know I've seen this in period literature somewhere). Men don't... they just... Laurence has to change everything for this to work, and I think Temeraire thinks quite a bit more like a human at the end to really understand Laurence.
(Ninety years or so later, men that had sex with men had wives waiting for them at home.)
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"I'm sure that Temeraire was eavesdropping at the window as subtly as a several-ton heavyweight dragon can." OMG HE WAS. He's bigger than the BUILDING they were using. "But it's not as if anybody can budge him. Also, when the most likely candidate isn't cooperating with the plan to give Laurence a captain... GIVE UP HOPE." Temeraire looks quite enraged enough to knock the damn thing down. If they will not treat Laurence right, then they both will leave, and Lily has said that she will not give them any eggs if they are going to raise them that way.
"(also, the return of Granby's pejorative SIR used against someone else = WIN)" When Jane tells the story later, she doesn't quite grasp the significance, but Granby goes beet red and Laurence cheers up a little.
"Ooh! I've read a lot of the series that Tamora Pierce wrote; she was my favourite author in junior high. I don't think I progressed to the Trickster series, though I have to, now. :)" It's awesome! Very much feels more grown-up than the rest, there's a lot of politics and actual overthrow of the government and it's ALANNA AND GEORGE'S BABY GIRL. She's awesome. She wants to be a spy. They both said no. They seemed to think it would work.
She's Alanna and George's kid, they said no, and... yeah. They had it coming, as much as they get upset about the way it happened.
"But you're so right. You have to go about this delicately." Fast relationships don't usually last, and Tem is very, very serious.
";_; But oh man, when you FINALLY get to that bit, it will be all the more romantic/awesome/sweet because of it." Tem does back way off, and gradually Laurence gets more comfortable initiating more of the affectionate displays and risky flying manoeuvers (too lazy to get the Brit version properly right now) and Laurence gets that look of "I'm going to mess this up but I don't care right now.
The best romances start that way--one book, the two characters weren't face-to-face until 200 pages in, and didn't touch for 60 more pages.
Doubly for this-- Laurence is a gentleman, still, and even if there were some brief adventures with boys, it was probably quite practical and hand-for-hand. (There aren't any girls, at all, and that type of thing was rather common. Outright anal intercourse, however, was NOT encouraged to the point that you could be killed for it (can't find my source, I know I've seen this in period literature somewhere). Men don't... they just... Laurence has to change everything for this to work, and I think Temeraire thinks quite a bit more like a human at the end to really understand Laurence.
(Ninety years or so later, men that had sex with men had wives waiting for them at home.)