The So, Hey, hi, hello, and welcome to the After Party. Where do we begin? Do we begin with these like whimsical modern

colorful buildings, this Hunger Games capital style adornment and

colorfulness? Or do we start with representative breaks?

Two choices up to you really.

Wherever you want I feel like I've really laid this out

and you can gotta just like choose your own adventure your way through this after party.

Can we somehow use the architecture as metaphor for your relationship with Brink?

Where you arrive at expecting one thing get maybe alienated by the surprising things about it and then come around and be like no you know what I can orient myself and yeah, this works.

And also neither of you are rectangles.

That is true. Neither.

All I'm good at metaphors.

All non-rectangular shapes. Think about it, we're all really just complex polyhedrons now, aren't we?

Steep.

So how did you and your other complex polyhedron kiss?

How did you get to this point? I wasn't prepared to see

her even though I knew intellectually that with all the representatives she

would be there you know I think at this point anara has seen enough of the world and realized the stakes of what exactly can go wrong, that embarrassing herself in front of a person she cares about and like disappointing someone that she wants never to

disappoint is not the worst possible outcome which it kind of was before.

So I think that now for the first time she is willing to be like hey I am a flawed and strange person. Here I am. If you want to love me, I'm available.

And that is a fricking hard place to get to. It has a lot of personal residence with me.

And it was just instinctual like the minute you know I

knew Brinks was coming theoretically but when an hour I saw Brinks like that

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