And Dahlfes takes what she wants to say about the implications that statement makes about both Dahlfes's intelligence and Orion physical capabilities, boxes it up, and buries it in the figurative ground. Because she likes Deb. Because she strongly suspects Deb would be horrified to know how that had sounded to Dahlfes, and the Orion doesn't want that.
"Of course. That's not the health I'm talking about. This is a matter of ... watering down the wine, as it were, to prevent a ... Romulan romantic addiction. Because while not being able to function without Kri'Stak is a condition with which I can very much sympathize, Deb, I'd prefer you weren't consigned to it until the two of you have had a chance to actually get to know each other as people."
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Date: 2014-01-23 06:42 pm (UTC)"Of course. That's not the health I'm talking about. This is a matter of ... watering down the wine, as it were, to prevent a ... Romulan romantic addiction. Because while not being able to function without Kri'Stak is a condition with which I can very much sympathize, Deb, I'd prefer you weren't consigned to it until the two of you have had a chance to actually get to know each other as people."