Thot's scrabbling toes are permitted their grasping movements, but the easy encouragement remains absent.
There are other people who Richard could ask. Ellis doesn't care to test the outer limits of Vance's regard for him, though he doesn't think lowly enough of him to think he'd perform the ritual out of spite.
"And if you're wrong, and it does nothing, it's not something that can be shucked off and put away."
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Date: 2021-05-30 07:05 pm (UTC)And neither do they. That's the problem.
Thot's scrabbling toes are permitted their grasping movements, but the easy encouragement remains absent.
There are other people who Richard could ask. Ellis doesn't care to test the outer limits of Vance's regard for him, though he doesn't think lowly enough of him to think he'd perform the ritual out of spite.
"And if you're wrong, and it does nothing, it's not something that can be shucked off and put away."