Room 303, Monday Afternoon

[bitchprince]

Between training Dinah, getting his own body back into shape- neglecting it for a few weeks hadn't done too much damage, but there was still some to make up for- and navigating the increasingly familiar strangeness of this place, Arthur's days were slowly filling up with things to do.

However, that didn't mean that at some indefinable point in the afternoon, he wouldn't find himself bored as all hell, sitting down on his bed. The idea that he had no duties here but going to class wasn't nearly as nice as some may have thought.

Nevermind the enduring trouble in getting home. He was attempting to speed up the healing of his arm with his mind by now.

[[ open door, open room! ]]

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[future_sandworm]

"See, I told you you sang better than him. And you didn't even blush." Leto threw another glance at Arthur, to see if he picked up on this, while trying to play the melody of the song on the baliset.

[bitchprince]

Arthur squinted at him at the glance, attempting to unravel that. Why would Dinah blush about singing...?

"While you're tearing down the ceiling, Dinah..." he started, then gave Leto another look. "My singing is well enough when it's needed," he said.

Which would be never, as far as he was concerned.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Which got Arthur another verse, at lower volume, and a glare.

I love the oceans
I love real dirty things
I love to go fast
I love Egyptian kings
I love the whole world
And all its craziness
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da ...

And Leto, please don't notice the blush at the double entendre there, and please don't comment, and oh man, why is she still singing, again?

[future_sandworm]

"Well, Dinah, you have kept your love of dirty things and going fast a secret," he smirked. It was too good to miss, really. "And tell me, what is so special about Egyptian kings?" He turned his head to look at Arthur. "Has she mentioned this to you?"

[bitchprince]

"No. I think Dinah," Arthur said, leaning backwards on his bed, "May have hidden depths she hasn't informed us about previously." He smirked.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah's jaw dropped, and she spluttered. "It's not that kind of song! No! I--" Okay, thinking about it now, it did sound like that kind of song, what the hell was she thinking?

"And hey! I can have depths! Which... would remain hidden. Unlike other people's."

She gave Leto a good glare for starting this mess too.

[future_sandworm]

Leto offered her the baliset. "I think it's time you tried playing this," he said, "Or I will expect to find out more about those depths." He paused. "Why are you glaring at me, Dinah?"

[bitchprince]

"Good question," Arthur said, flopping his head against the blankets so he could stare up at the ceiling. "And I'm not in the slightest inclined to ask which depths you're referring to, so carry on."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Good thing, since everyone else knows about them, even if you don't," Dinah snarked in a low voice, taking the baliset from Leto, still red. "Your depths. Not my depths. I mean." She took a breath, then determinedly said, "Hands go here, right?" And plucked one string, getting her fingers into position.

[future_sandworm]

She did remember quite well, but Leto took the opportunity to move her hands to a slightly better position, keeping his fingers around hers a little longer than necessary. "Arthur, please don't distract her."

[bitchprince]

Ignoring Leto's statement for once, decorum be dawned, Arthur's eyes suddenly went rather open. He looked at Dinah, and said, with a combination of insult, confusion and authority only a man of his time could manage, "What was that?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah jumped, then settled back down, hands in place, still blushing a little. "Um. About your depths?" She considered saying Nothing, you heard me wrong but some internal perversity made her say, "Mr. Jamison on the Radio wants your fun guests to sneak out before the squirrels wake up so he doesn't have to report on it to the whole Island. Also, the squirrels or maybe just Jamie still think you two had sex in a shack."

Not that she cared. But it was still funny. Dinah plucked another string on the baliset, looking pleased with herself.

[future_sandworm]

Leto looked at Arthur. "Do you see how that has anything to do with your depths?" He managed to look totally innocent.

[bitchprince]

"Dinah," he said, ignoring Leto entirely since that appeared to be the sane option, "My fun guests are none of your business. I'd appreciate it if you behaved accordingly."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Don't wanna know," Dinah said, making a face. "Totally good with that. Radio cares, so I know, but I wish I didn't. Just don't talk--" And she turned to glare smirkily at Leto, "About my hidden depths first! Sheesh."

[future_sandworm]

"I assume hidden depths are not broadcast on the radio," Leto replied. "Otherwise they wouldn't be particularly hidden. Please, relax your hand a little, the baliset isn't going to run away."

[bitchprince]

"And I assured you I feel no need to know anything about yours. At all," Arthur said, still a bit sour. "God help me, I'll have Merlin deal with these bloody squirrels somehow. Is there anywhere they don't stick their noses in? Am I going to have to armor the blasted window? Where in the name of God are they coming from?"

This may have been turning into a rant.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Eeep. Cranky Arthur was craaanky. Dinah was turning red again at Leto's teasing too, so she tried to stay veerrry quiet. Pling. Zing. Ting.

Finally she had to say, "Maaaybe they're magic."

Because that would help.

[future_sandworm]

Leto gave her a rather stern look. He didn't need a cranky and paranoid roommate to deal with. Hoping to distract Arthur from Dinah's comment he said: "I seriously believe there should be a censorship of some kind on this island. Rumours will spread anyway, but having news reports that actually encourage it is careless. Besides, why would there be need for a shack?"

[bitchprince]

Arthur shot Dinah a look that implied how very not funny she was, and his jaw had set a little by the time Leto's words connected. So, for various reasons, he tilted his head away from her so that he could fix his eyes on Leto. "If the locals had any concern for discretion at all," he muttered, "Like the rumor mill isn't bad enough as-is."

On this one, he felt, he and Leto were completely on the same level.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"You guys have never been to high school before," Dinah realized. Then couldn't help but grin. "It's nothing but gossip. What else are we doing, classes? Other people's sex lives are lots more interesting to teenagers." She shrugged, trying not to smile. Or blush. Or both. "If you tried to censor it, more people than Priestly would be yelling at you."

[future_sandworm]

Leto frowned. "Who is Priestly? Is he yelling about gossip?"

[bitchprince]

"Priestly," Arthur muttered, like that was his favorite subject in the world. Really. "Is an idiot. Having experienced him both drunk and sober, I think I'm fairly certain on that much."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"He is not, he's smart, he just has very strong convictions and doesn't care who knows it," Dinah objected, plucking the wrong chord on the baliset. "He's a friend of mine," she told Leto. "The loud singing one. Who says the revolution will not be televised."

She really had to look that up, find out what it meant.

[future_sandworm]

"What revolution?" Leto asked sharply. "Surely he's not planning to overthrow the authorities on this island?" He poked Dinah's fingers to the correct position. "And now break that chord into separate notes."