A Trip with Teja

[wheatencrown]

When they first step through the door, they're in the cold of France but Demeter is quiet and then steps and warm air hits them.

They're in the midst of a beautiful vineyard with a cottage visible just through the vines,

"Here we are."

Comments

[wheatencrown]

"No, simply the world you lived in and your duties constrained you so."

[ostro_goth]

"The world I lived in was much constrained by both Platonism and Christianity," Teja says, "and while I did not subscribe to their tenets, I did keep to their rules, incidentally, and thus was above reproach."

[wheatencrown]

"Yes and so you're only now learning how to pursue your own happiness and pleasure."

[ostro_goth]

"As nobody is likely to quote the bible or Plato at me with disapproval, any longer," Teja agrees.

[wheatencrown]

"No, you can quote them at yourself if you really want to."

[ostro_goth]

"You are making fun of me!" Teja says; but he is smiling.

He knows that he still lives by standards that nobody shares, not even he himself.

[wheatencrown]

"Of course I am, someone has to."

[ostro_goth]

"This journey is doing me good," Teja then says. "So many things were preying on my mind lately, not just Charlie."

[wheatencrown]

"I know, you worry too much."

[ostro_goth]

"Yes," Teja says. "I think I can change things if only I worry enough and don't stop poking at them."

[wheatencrown]

"Exactly and in the meantime, I'll make sure you laugh and blush."

[ostro_goth]

"Thank you," Teja says, a bit ruefully.