βIβm sure. In the event of misadventure, of course, if I should be made unable to avail myself of discretionββ
Mlle Tavaneβs recovery had gone swimmingly until, she heard, it had not.
ββI think that you and I know the likelihood of Docteur Strange preferring those names to your own, in his urgency.β In a word: low. (Somewhere, Marcus feels a bloom of exasperated affection; this is what she considers frank and direct.) βAnd I, in my bias, can only think it better that you should be familiar from the beginning. Against the possibility of such an outcome.β
Itβs neither assurance nor threat; he knows her to be more than capable to couch this in purposeful manipulation, even a talent of hers, but here and now she is clear-eyed and matter of fact. The facts, as she understands them, are not fair.
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Mlle Tavaneβs recovery had gone swimmingly until, she heard, it had not.
ββI think that you and I know the likelihood of Docteur Strange preferring those names to your own, in his urgency.β In a word: low. (Somewhere, Marcus feels a bloom of exasperated affection; this is what she considers frank and direct.) βAnd I, in my bias, can only think it better that you should be familiar from the beginning. Against the possibility of such an outcome.β
Itβs neither assurance nor threat; he knows her to be more than capable to couch this in purposeful manipulation, even a talent of hers, but here and now she is clear-eyed and matter of fact. The facts, as she understands them, are not fair.
It is rarely otherwise.