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[pasodoble]

Week 3: Monday

( As promises, Kaoru brings Austria to his room some time in the afternoon. They don't have a lot of time to begin so when she arrives, he let's her in and will show her to her seat rather swiftly, )

Thanks for coming.

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[ladyofthehouse]

[Spain please.]

I don't think I'd be able to understand that sort of thing.

[Or she has. It's just... that sort of thing never mattered in the end. No one she's thought she loved at least. Significant others, children she cared for, friends and even people she'd admired.

They'd always... left her. One way or another.]

...Do they love you back?

[pasodoble]

Who wouldn't love you?

( Not... really answering the question for himself there, oops. But the answer would still be the same. )

[ladyofthehouse]

[She smiles, although it looks more sad than anything.]

I can think of a few people in this house alone who's names I could answer that question with.

Regardless I don't think I'd be a very good nation. [She pulls her incentive out of her pocket. It's a small cropping of what seems like an endless crowd of people.]

I have no interest in acting on this.

[pasodoble]

( If she allows it, he'll take the photo from her and take a closer look. His jaw clenches and he holds his breath for a second. The photo is remarkably similar to his own and so he knows what it is immediately. And then as quickly as it comes, his surprise passes. Really, if she blinked, she might have thought she'd imagined it.

He manages a laugh and hands it back to her, )

Then it looks like the masterminds behind this show made a mistake. ( It's not a lie. Wow, way to take away someone's memory and then blackmail them using something they'd need their memory to care about. ) Who knows what else they've gotten wrong...!

( Their time is probably beginning to run out soon. )

Don't worry, Austria.

[ladyofthehouse]

[It's caused her a lot of turmoil at least. Maybe it's really not so odd an incentive, if she'd had her memories... and thanks to the change in rules that's always on the table now.]

It seems that way.

[Austria takes the picture back and glances at the clock.]

I should probably be on my way.

[pasodoble]

Before we get in trouble, sí.

( He'll go to get the door for her but before he opens it, he stops, appears to consider something, and says in accented German, )

I know it wasn't you.

( Who killed Eridan, that is. Austria might notice that his accent is lighter and not as harsh compared to regular German-- it's an Austrian accent. But before she can say anything, he'll already be showing her out the door so they don't get in trouble. )

[ladyofthehouse]

[Hearing that, Austria's face flushes red almost immediately as he ushers her out the door.

No one had actually said anything like that to her. Not without a hypothetical attached to it, or asking if she'd done it, or without resentment of her.]

... danke.

[She'd really wanted just one person to say it.]