Sunrise by the Ladon Bonfire: Van and Tanek
"Yeah, alright," Tanek said, before he felt something hot and hopeful bloom up in his stomach. He tried to quell that pang of desire, but that that was the problem with being drunk: sometimes your feelings ran away with you.
His hand found the small of Van's back as they tottered off to the Hydra dormitory. "Hey," he said, his reedy voice slurring a little, "will we still be friends in ten years? When you're, like, a famous game designer and I am..." Tanek shrugged. "I don't know, probably selling my body to science."