Open Post: Who invented this calendar anyway?

[futaille]

How unfortunate.

Yes, Grantaire was fully aware that the year being longer at the mansion would logically cause seasons to drift when someone kept track of the old calendar, or at least what had been pinned down as the old calendar for convenience sake, which was almost necessary when people's arrivals weren't necessarily tied to the day they left. He hadn't given it too much thought last year, when his birthday, such that it was, arrived in spring like he was used to.

Dark, though, was unfortunate. Not inappropriate for the next notable anniversary coming up, but for this one, not at all. Of course, it wasn't as if he would have been planning much in the way of an event, Dark or no, but it would have been nice to treat himself to something or other, regardless.

Instead, he has installed himself in the game room, where he is carefully balancing dominoes on their ends to make a domino rally on the billiards table. It's a nice large flat surface, so it should work nicely. Have to keep entertained somehow.

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[futaille]

"Ah, yes. Right. Thank you." His smile grows the faintest bit wry. "All present evidence to the contrary, I really am getting much better at accepting compliments."

[quote_gentle_unquote]

Naturally Susan, who is not given to tests whatsoever, immediately tests this. "Ah! Well done."

[futaille]

He laughs a little. Obviously it's a prompt for a demonstration. "Oh, thank you. It's been a process."

[quote_gentle_unquote]

"I imagine it must be."

[futaille]

"I suppose that after all my old reliable tricks to wriggle out of the way largely stopped working, I had to start adapting."

[quote_gentle_unquote]

"How positively dreadful."

[futaille]

"Such a burden, I know."

[quote_gentle_unquote]

"And yet you seem largely unscathed," she says, taking the corkscrew and starting to open the wine.

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"I suppose that's part of adaptation. I certainly wasn't going to just start avoiding people forever."

[quote_gentle_unquote]

The thing is that Susan can't even take offense at the remark, because she's certain he doesn't mean it pointedly. "No, I suppose that would be worse."

[futaille]

Grantaire wouldn't even be able to begin to say how it would have been meant pointedly, so Susan's intuition is entirely correct. "People are too interesting overall, I think."

[quote_gentle_unquote]

"Ah, so in the great scale of things, being complimented is outweighed by exposure to people?" says Susan. A little shimmy, and the cork pops out of the bottle. She offers the wine to Grantaire.