PtiloSil Frotting

Like at some Rhodes Island work party or something a coworker lightly insinuates that it must be kinda hard to have to deal with working with her all the time and Silence has had a couple of drinks and she puffs up and just unloads on them.

She goes on and on about how Dr. Moore (it's a little informal but still gotta show proper respect) is one of the warmest, sweetest, funniest, most affectionate people she's ever had the good fortune to meet and if you actually put in the effort you'll see how she just lights up a room when she's happy and it's not fair by all rights women should be beating down her door to ask her out but instead she has to deal with people being politely awkwardly sorry for her (or worse people around her) just because nobody is willing to put in the effort or they just make assumptions about her.

At which point the coworker, trying to salvage the evening, kind of just goes "oh uh... Dr. Moore is gay? Didn't... uh... didn't know that."

And Silence kinda has to freeze and kind of try to hide the fact that she doesn't *really* know and that it was kind of just wishful thinking because she hasn't really admitted to herself that she's crushing a bit on Joyce because she's a colleague and a dear friend and Silence doesn't know if Joyce is interested in relationships at all and Silence just has so much baggage what with everything that's going on (but Joyce really is such a good person and she's warm and funny and Ifrit likes her too and now that Silence thinks about it she really is beautiful) and-

My submission!

Cannot believe the text is what took longest to come up with.

Happy belated birthday, you wonderful owl.