human
Oscar:  "I would be ludicrous of me to expect anyone to look past that."
gpt
Oscar:  "I’m not looking past it. You’re you because of it."
human
Oscar:  Oscar caught hold of Tinasha’s downturned face, tilting her chin up. He gazed searchingly into her dark eyes. "Anyway, I have a little favor to ask."
gpt
Tinasha:  "What is it?"
human
Oscar:  "I want you to put a transportation array in here connecting my rooms to yours."
gpt
Tinasha:  "What? I can, of course, but why?"
human
Oscar:  "So I can come pick on you every day."
gpt
Tinasha:  "Absolutely not!" she shouted, tumbling off his lap and onto the bed. Her limbs splayed out from the center of the wide bed.
human
Oscar:  Oscar scooted over to sit next to Tinasha and pinched her puffed-up cheeks. "Please?"
gpt
Tinasha:  "Ouch! Is that the sort of attitude you have when asking someone a favor?!" Tinasha flailed wildly for a bit before laying her head in his lap. "I mean, all you have to do is call for me, and I’ll be there. Stop trying to bully me whenever you want."
human
Oscar:  "But there might come a time when I can’t just call for you. If something happens to me, you’ll know because of the protective charm you have on me, but I don’t have anything like that to tell me when you’re in trouble."
gpt
Oscar:  Oscar pointed out.
human
Oscar:  "It’s all well and good if nothing happens, but you have a lot of enemies. It’s perfectly natural for me to fear you’re tangled up in something. Let me at least just check in on you once a day."
gpt
Tinasha:  "Oscar…" Tinasha looked remorseful.
human
Tinasha:  Curling in on herself, Tinasha said, "I’m sorry. I guess I don’t really know how to rely on people."
gpt
Oscar:  "Well, I don’t mind if you think of it as indulging me. I’ll be very mad at you if you die."
human
Tinasha:  "I understand," the queen replied, rising and glancing around until she found an out-of-the-way spot in a corner of his bedroom. "Should I make it one-way?