one's chastity is / widely believed a virtue / not personal choice

[roc_on]

The next day there's an article in a scandal sheet insinuating that there may be something inappropriate going on between Delightful Jun and the Avatar.

Beila adopts a strategy of completely ignoring this insinuation until an interviewer asks her point blank, at which point she says, "No," and declines to elaborate further. Because there is nothing to elaborate on.

She shows up, exasperated, for her next firebending lesson.

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[roc_on]

Well, that looks like her cue to head home.

She sees Dao before Jun, the next morning; they are getting brunch.

[thinklikethis]

When she arrives to pick him up, he seems to have a slight problem where he cannot stop grinning.

[roc_on]

"You're in a good mood."

[thinklikethis]

"I am," he says, hugging her. "Hi!"

[roc_on]

"Hi!" Hugs. "How'd it go? I couldn't hear what you actually said to him."

[thinklikethis]

"It was," he says, "delightful. I'm delighted."

He kisses her on the cheek and hugs her some more.

[roc_on]

"Delight is good!" They proceed in a brunchly direction.

[thinklikethis]

"Delight is good. Delight is awesome. Jun is awesome."

[roc_on]

"You are adorable."

[thinklikethis]

"You know what? Yes," he says. "Yes I am."

He hugs her again.

[roc_on]

Beila laughs. She hugs him. "Are you going to tell me what you said? All I heard was him answering you."

[thinklikethis]

"Oh, that." He blushes. "It was just - I don't know. Things."

[roc_on]

"Aha."

[thinklikethis]

"He seemed to think I was cute, anyway."

[roc_on]

"That is probably because you are cute."

[thinklikethis]

"People do keep telling me that!"

[roc_on]

"You should bow to the overwhelming public opinion."

[thinklikethis]

"No," he says, contrarily.

[roc_on]

"Why not?"

[thinklikethis]

"Because why is overwhelming public opinion a reason to do anything?"

[roc_on]

"Well, sometimes it's not, but when there's enough of it, it undergoes a mystical transmogrification into 'common sense'."

[thinklikethis]

"It is not common sense that I'm cute," says Dao.

[roc_on]

"Is too!"

[thinklikethis]

"Is not!"

[roc_on]

"It iiiiiis though."