Nuriko: ...So do we end up doing it or what?
Sabina: I don't know.
Nuriko: What do you mean you don't know? You're the one who wrote it!
Sabina [sententious]: Certainty of outcome implies, if not failure, lack of grace. Besides, what's it to you anyway? It's over.
Nuriko: The hell it is! Pay scale's different and everything.
Sabina: ...;;
Nuriko: I'm serious! Here – [whips telephone-directory-sized book out from mallet space] Section 11-B of Anime Characters In Fanfiction Remuneration Code – check this out – amendment resultant to the Maxwell vs. Firedancer decision. "In case of sexual activity-" Hotohori-sama, you're with me on this, aren't you?
Hotohori [still attempting to get stuff out of his hair]: ...
Sabina: Overdid it with the pins. You know, I think you just want to get it on with him.
[pause]
Nuriko: That is, like, so irrelevant.
Sabina: *sigh*