[ the gesture — emphatic, a struck nerve escaping — is also blessedly invisible. it's not as though it's terribly invasive; rather, it's not as if it ought to be.
it's a relief, sometimes, not to be known.
it isn't the first time he's been asked, and that's the real question, isn't it? there's no need to lie; there's no need for the whole truth. ]
Not for lack of trying. You've never swallowed your pride until gurns spend a season infesting your bathwater.
[ That's an image. The wrinkling of a nose, likewise invisible, carries on a breathed smile a little easier. Charmed, as ever; willing to leave a moment's breathing room. Not distracted. ]
[ Agreeing? Considering. If they were having this conversation in person, there'd be a press of tongue to teeth to witness. (If they were having this conversation in person, he'd have brought wine; might not have had a conversation at all.) ]
no, there's one: the crumple of posture, those words after ghislain; isaac's seen enough barred windows and battlefields to know the type — just not what to say. the impulse has always been as foreign as its wreckage familiar. ]
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[ Intimacy. ]
I am not particular.
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[ all the above ]
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[ hm. not the metaphor to carry. ]
That’s — not what I mean. You know how it is; there aren't any secrets in a tower.
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Not many, no.
[ A few. Still: no point in sharing what everyone already knows. ]
And no one you would have made new ones with?
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[ the gesture — emphatic, a struck nerve escaping — is also blessedly invisible. it's not as though it's terribly invasive; rather, it's not as if it ought to be.
it's a relief, sometimes, not to be known.
it isn't the first time he's been asked, and that's the real question, isn't it? there's no need to lie; there's no need for the whole truth. ]
Not for lack of trying. You've never swallowed your pride until gurns spend a season infesting your bathwater.
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And nowadays?
[ Didn't. Past tense. ]
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[ Agreeing? Considering. If they were having this conversation in person, there'd be a press of tongue to teeth to witness. (If they were having this conversation in person, he'd have brought wine; might not have had a conversation at all.) ]
Perhaps— that is not always the point.
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[ whether he'll get a say in that? more gently: ]
Do you?
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[ --Well. ]
I don't know. There wasn't supposed to be a rest-of anything.
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no, there's one: the crumple of posture, those words after ghislain; isaac's seen enough barred windows and battlefields to know the type — just not what to say. the impulse has always been as foreign as its wreckage familiar. ]
Has there been?
[ he's here. ]
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More than I expected.
[ Oh look a bird. ]
Considering the rest of the world seems to be on its dogged march toward ending, perhaps we are all doing rather well.
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[ does thedas do that ]
2/2
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You're going to spoil my reputation.
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[ by basically every objective measure: yes. ]
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[ —That he's willing to be smug about, anyway. Speaking of: ]
Don't tell me you require a reminder.
[ Do, though. ]
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[ You'd know. ]
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