If they're planning to gouge us for nothing, then I'm sure as hell going to do them right back.

[The smirk on his face was bright and pleased. Seregil rarely took things lying down, and this would be no exception. There would be thievery to even out the gouging, and all the intrigue that he lived for since his time started among the Tir.

It was also a welcome distraction from their current predicament. The fact that Alec called him talí almost constantly hadn't escaped him, or the fact that it felt right and almost comfortable to hear it from the other man.

Or that fact that he had to stop himself from saying it back almost every time he addressed him.

It wasn't the right time to be thinking of those things. It never would be. Especially not when it was someone that he cared so deeply for as he did for Alec.

The comment of a private game made him laugh again. Trust Alec to learn the intricacies of rebuilding something as strange as a toaster but not be able to hold his own at bakshi.]

If you can't even beat me once then I'll need to beat you more so you learn.