"Proselytize all you like, Dexter, but I'm not converting one of the living rooms into a bedroom."
"Why? You said it yourself. It's not trouble at all."
"It's no trouble as compared to converting a bathroom or a kitchen.It's plenty of trouble all on its own, trust me. Besides, it's time we could be spending busy on something else."
"It's time we could be spending in a bedroom somewhere else where I continue to solidify your conviction that we will be making an excellent choice in refurbishing a room of this extremely large house."
"But Dexter, why is a bedroom necessary?"
"Why do you need so many living rooms? Variety is the spice of life, Skul."
"Spices are," is Skulduggery's answer, delivered with a straight face. "I think I could do with a bit more convincing, really."
"Okay. If you had a bedroom, I could sleep over."
"You can already do that, dear."
"I wake up with terrible back aches, you know that."
"Getting old, are we?" Skulduggery asks serenely.
"Oh, shut up."
"I can distract you plenty from your back."
"I know you can, but it's the principle of the thing."
"And you say I talk a lot."
A/N: Skulduggery is sassy, assuming sassy is a unisex adjective. Even if it isn't, sassiness is an integral part of Skulduggery.
~Mademise Morte, September 25, 2012.