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mako. pre relationship.

[odont]

Good evening, Major Mori.

[ You can do this, Odo. It's just. Talk. ]

I trust you've made your schedule for the week.

[dekiru]

Hello, Constable Odo.

[ A little less formal. She's trying to be encouraging. ]

I have made it, so far as it can be made. Unfortunately engineering emergencies do not usually follow a timetable.

[odont]

Oh what a world it would be if they did...

[ Such order.

Are we still having our regular sparring?

[dekiru]

Of course. Unless you would like to reschedule?

[odont]

No. Thank you. I look forward to it.

[ A considerable amount of time passes between the messages. Just enough for an awkward silence if they were face to face.

He knew how to do this. Didn't he? Why was it so much harder with her. ]

I trust Major Beckett has kept you entertained.

[ Yes. Good. Talk about her and her life. He just might get more information to file away for later, for better conversations. ]

[dekiru]

[ She finds herself wishing they were speaking face to face instead of this. It would be much easier, she thinks. Less awkward if she were able to better use non-verbal communication. ]

Raleigh is very entertaining, yes. That is why I was surprised to see that he gets along so well with Sergeant Hansen.

[ And that, for the uninitiated, is a yes, he's very nice, though not my type. ]

[odont]

[ He made sure that his main competition was out of the race before even beginning. ]

Very well from what I've seen... And happy.

[ So that is not him condemning their relationship. More to them. ]

[dekiru]

Yes. Though I wish I did not have to experience it so closely in the drift.

[ No condemnation here either. She doesn't even mind it that much really - it's a component of the drift she has always had to be prepared for. It's out of fun that she pretends to care. ]

If I had something of my own to trade for it... 笑

[odont]

There must be countless suitors at your feet.

[ That is a dash of jealousy you're detecting there. ]

[dekiru]

I would not know who is at my feet. I prefer a person who looks me in the eye.

[odont]

You are an incredible woman, Mako.

[dekiru]

Thank you.

[ Shut up, you're blushing. ]

You are very impressive too.

[odont]

I'm glad someone finally noticed.

[ A thought struck him and she was a very reasonable level-headed woman. He saw no reason not to ask. Although he felt he needed to preface it. ]

May I ask a personal question out of cultural curiosity?

How much experience do you have with courtship? Terran or otherwise.

[dekiru]

Some. Why?

[odont]

Cultural differences. Personal curiosity over a friend.

[ The Big Test. ]

[dekiru]

A friend?

[odont]

Aren't we ... friends?

[ Here's to making a damn idiot of yourself, Odo. ]

[dekiru]

We are.

Are you asking to court me?

[odont]

.... Well I had hoped to go about it in a more romantic way than that!

[dekiru]

笑 I apologise! Should I pretend I did not ask?

[odont]

If you don't mind.

[dekiru]

Of course. I will leave you to court me at your leisure. 笑

[odont]

With how many arrive daily, I was not planning on waiting much longer.

[dekiru]

You would be surprised by how few of them will look me in the eye.

[odont]

I would be more surprised at how few deserve to.