What question is there, really, that Ellis could ask beyond the boundaries of any indignity not previously faced?
Richard does tip the tankard up to drink again -- more deeply -- before he sets it aside. Just in case.
“Try me.”
It’s nastier to silently accumulate leverage than it is to establish it outright: if you’ll answer one in return. But he is sometimes nasty, and he is nasty now, with no outward indication in an encouraging glance. What dream?
The thing beneath the table feels to have gone, or was never there. Imagined, perhaps.
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Date: 2021-04-29 04:55 am (UTC)Richard does tip the tankard up to drink again -- more deeply -- before he sets it aside. Just in case.
“Try me.”
It’s nastier to silently accumulate leverage than it is to establish it outright: if you’ll answer one in return. But he is sometimes nasty, and he is nasty now, with no outward indication in an encouraging glance. What dream?
The thing beneath the table feels to have gone, or was never there. Imagined, perhaps.