Not to worry, she'll be well-provided for. As will you, if I have anything to say about it.
[Which he imagines he does, once they take care of the paperwork. Isn't it a strange position to be in? At home, dating your employer would be nearly unthinkable, utterly scandalous, a gross abuse of their power over you--something liable to get you both into a good deal of trouble. Yet, here? The balance of power still remains overwhelmingly in his favor, even so. What a truly strange place this city is. He'd never even imagined he might end up getting so intimate with his classmates in anything beyond his daydreams, yet look at them all now.....
If Jade thinks he's escaped an uncomfortable conversation with even such a happy distraction, though, then he's sorely mistaken. If anything, now it just means he has even more grounding to harass the poor merman.]
Now, then! With that settled, shall we speak of the future?
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[Which he imagines he does, once they take care of the paperwork. Isn't it a strange position to be in? At home, dating your employer would be nearly unthinkable, utterly scandalous, a gross abuse of their power over you--something liable to get you both into a good deal of trouble. Yet, here? The balance of power still remains overwhelmingly in his favor, even so. What a truly strange place this city is. He'd never even imagined he might end up getting so intimate with his classmates in anything beyond his daydreams, yet look at them all now.....
If Jade thinks he's escaped an uncomfortable conversation with even such a happy distraction, though, then he's sorely mistaken. If anything, now it just means he has even more grounding to harass the poor merman.]
Now, then! With that settled, shall we speak of the future?