Oh? [ tseng tilts his head a little, watching sasuke's fingers curl around the cup. ] Did you request it yourself, or was it a gift from the house?
[ it is tseng's understanding that one can request a change of one's own rank, or have it forcibly changed by another—but also that it sometimes just happens without rhyme or reason. the change between 2 and 3 isn't much, but tseng is sure there are certain creature comforts that are better now. including, apparently, the storage space. ]
Would you enjoy a higher rank?
[ he moves to retrieve the tea, now steeped, and returns to pour carefully first into sasuke's teacup, then into his own. when they'd spoken about it briefly, cy had seemed hesitant to let the house's attention come to rest on sasuke. it's a hesitance tseng certainly understands, but a part of him also feels that the lowest ranks are equally subject to scrutiny as the higher ranks, and that something in the five-six-seven range might be the least noteworthy among them. ]
no subject
[ it is tseng's understanding that one can request a change of one's own rank, or have it forcibly changed by another—but also that it sometimes just happens without rhyme or reason. the change between 2 and 3 isn't much, but tseng is sure there are certain creature comforts that are better now. including, apparently, the storage space. ]
Would you enjoy a higher rank?
[ he moves to retrieve the tea, now steeped, and returns to pour carefully first into sasuke's teacup, then into his own. when they'd spoken about it briefly, cy had seemed hesitant to let the house's attention come to rest on sasuke. it's a hesitance tseng certainly understands, but a part of him also feels that the lowest ranks are equally subject to scrutiny as the higher ranks, and that something in the five-six-seven range might be the least noteworthy among them. ]