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Let's see where this goes

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Chapter 14 in International Relations

"I should like to say something," Lilly says, "and I should like you not to be clever about it until I've finished." "I'll do my best." "That's all I'm asking, though I suspect it's more than you're capable of." The corner of her mouth lifts, but it doesn't stay. She looks down...

A date with Lily

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Chapter 13 in International Relations

A date with Lily

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Chapter 13 in International Relations

"Plans?" you repeat, glancing at the smudged digits on the back of your hand, then at Claire, who is watching you with the patient delight of someone who already knows the answer. "I think I owe someone a text." "Two someones, I'd say." She squeezes your arm and unhooks hers fro...

A blond bumps into you

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Chapter 12 in International Relations

A blond bumps into you

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Chapter 12 in International Relations

Spend the evening with Claire

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Chapter 13 in International Relations

Spend the evening with Claire

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Chapter 13 in International Relations

"Plans?" you repeat, and realize, saying it out loud, that you don't have any you'd rather have than the obvious one. "Honestly? Going home with you, if the offer's still open. I believe I was promised tourtière." Claire stops walking. For half a second her face does something s...

A blond bumps into you

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Chapter 12 in International Relations

\[If you are not using game mode, know that this chapter is dependent on John not having met Tiffany yet\] You've barely stepped out onto the pavement, blinking in the late-afternoon light and wondering where Claire has gotten to, when something small, fast and blond hits you at...

Go see Claire

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Chapter 12 in International Relations

You step outside into the Vienna afternoon, where you meet up with Claire again. "Well? Verdict on the Lesecafé? Be honest. Was it deeply humiliating, or only mildly?" "Surprisingly not humiliating at all. I'm as shocked as you are." You glance at her. "You abandoned me at the...

Go see Claire

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Chapter 12 in International Relations

Go see Claire

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Chapter 12 in International Relations

The Sleepwalkers

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Chapter 11 in International Relations

You'd picked Christopher Clark's *The Sleepwalkers* half out of genuine interest and half because it seemed like the sort of book that might actually justify itself in conversation. A dense, doorstop history of how Europe blundered into the First World War, which felt, at the ver...

By his bootstraps

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Chapter 11 in International Relations

You'd picked the Heinlein almost on impulse. A battered paperback wedged sideways on the shelf, cover art straight out of the fifties, the kind of pulpy title that promised either genuine brilliance or two hours you'd never get back. \*By His Bootstraps.\* You're maybe twenty pag...

The Lesecafè

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Chapter 10 in International Relations

The Lesecafè

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Chapter 10 in International Relations

No Exit

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Chapter 11 in International Relations

You scan the shelf for longer than was strictly dignified before landing on a slim paperback of Sartre's \*No Exit\* mostly because it was short, partly because you liked the idea of being caught reading something that sounded appropriately bleak and European, and also, because y...

The Lesecafé

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Chapter 10 in International Relations

It had been half an hour since you arrived at thr Café, and so far, noone has aproached you. Though maybe, that might just be because you made a poor choice of books. You see Claire, talking to local man in his fourties, discussing a Max Weber book. Several women of all ages and...

Back to start

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Chapter 3 in International Relations

Why don't we keep getting drunker and see what happens

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Chapter 7 in International Relations

"Or, how about we keep getting drunker, and just see what happens?" You suggest. Tiffany gives a smirk. "Sure, if you're buying." A few drinks later, you both move up to leave the bar. "You know, John. I am drunk." Tiffany says, matter of factly. "Obviously. So am i." Seemingly...

Breakfast with your one night stand and your roommate

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Chapter 9 in International Relations

Claire is sitting in the kitchen, and seems momentarily stunned by the busty blond entering the room only wearing underwear. Tiffany seems entirely unbothered by the situation, giggling slighty as Claire blushes. You try to bring some order to the moment. "Hi, Claire. Good morni...