The sprawl itself is rather inviting, but Claudius declines to comment on it. He simply observes, before taking a seat beside Enjolras, wine glass in hand. "Are we living within the bounds of polite society? This whole place feels like an experiment, combining chemicals and reagents. We've all been mixed together in this beaker of mansion, and something's outside of it observing us, observing what this admixture will produce. We come from different worlds, with differing expectations, and those include social expectations. What's socially unacceptable to me is simply the done thing for another. It creates conflict, but also the resolution of conflict. Shared understandings. Friendship and love. Do all those reactions even out to society?"
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