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Lislchen 
Huh. Who knew a simple question about motives would lead to a discussion like this one. Olly was listening. Attentively too. So he DIDN'T think that the world was divided into good and bad people. That was a relief. Because honestly if it had come down to that, she would have probably ended the conversation. Or else she would have ended up giving him a history lesson.
"So like an ideal then. A 'good person' is the ideal you're striving towards?" That made sense. Sort of. Not that she shared this ambition. Not in the same way he did anyway. "So you're not very good at reaching your goal then." Because he'd said he didn't think he was a particularly good person. See, and that was why something like this was NOT her ambition.
That line always worked? That made her raise her eyebrows in doubt. "Yeah?" Though, she had to admit she WAS intrigued so maybe he was right. Even though for her it was probably because she was just really looking for a distraction from studying...and just life in general. "Oh I suppose I should feel honored then. If it's usually the girlfriend who's getting these kinds of offers." She grinned at him.
"What is it then? The adventure?" They'd have to get up, yes? Though he wasn't moving so she wouldn't either.
Mo had to laugh at the suggestion that he was bad at reaching goals. Or the goal of being a good person. It was all relative, wasn't it? And she'd asked if he was a good person already, not if he was better than he'd been before or mostly successful or any of those things. He wasn't perfect. He wasn't always good. Sometimes he had to work at it. But sometimes the wanting to do something was nearly as good as the doing it.
Wanting to be good was an important part of actually being it.
"I've never not gotten what I put my mind to," Mo offered, pushing up to his feet and wiggling his fingers at Olly in an invitation for her to take his hand. "Except Alice, obviously, but that really worked out in my favor. Now then... you were giving in to my inevitable charm. And feeling honored and delighted about it." He'd have to think of an adventure, though, before she asked many more questions.
"You want a sitting adventure?"