The Harpy and the Dragon

[wibblywobbly]

John's fetchers do not change, but his tone of voice does change to something a little more sincere.

"First off, you don't know that Alice, for all we know having a wilder side might be good for me, to counter balance the 'intelligent Academic' in me."

He leans back,

"But if there is one thing I know for certain, one should never try to force relationships, if something happens, it happens. I'm not going to go out actively searching for a relationship, I'll just keep meeting folks and if I click with someone, then I click with them."

His mind suddenly drifts back to Martha, but he doubted that anything would come of that. John often times thought that they were somehow on two different planes of existence. Despite this,he could still at least enjoy her company.

[Alice Brown]

Alice laughs while shaking her head. 'Okay whatever.' She winks while joking. 'You ask me for advise, I give it for free. Of course you're also free to wait an eternity until you find your true love...'

Argh, those words, Alice really has a lot of bad memories regarding true love.

'Because our kind of people can only disappoint you. Take what you can, carpe diem. I once thought I found true love, the guy even took me to America. Now see where I am... obviously not with him.'

[wibblywobbly]

John smiles sympathetically with Alice,

"Sounds more like to me, that you gave up waiting for love a long time ago."

He adds simply.

[Alice Brown]

'Whatever.' Alice rises from her seat, smiles at John, then says: 'I go grab a... dance. See you later?'

Shall we wrap up?

[wibblywobbly]

"Yeah, see you around." John replies with a smile.

Tonight's conversation was enlightening, unfortunately it seemed that it might not have been mutual.

Works fine with me.