[ Easy to imagine Richard turning in for the night, while Loxley sits out here on the docks and watches the water and opines about hearts and such. There is a pause, the searching kind, suspecting a joke at his own expense.
No easy read, there. ]
Anyone can vanish at any time, is really all. Not just us.
Fine, [ that moment of impatience, suddenly turning brusque, less delicate than he'd like to be. ] Would you recommend I try not to?
—by which I mean, not even only the big capital L type, but becoming close to someone at all. I don't know that I've stayed in one place for this long since childhood.
[ Impatience is met with protracted silence. Richard lies on his side, his face half sunk into his pillow while he looks at his life, looks at his choices. ]
Athessa is poorly equipped to manage undesirable outcomes. You are likely to create an undesirable outcome.
I’m not advocating for you to abandon all hope of meaningful connection, [ even if that’s where the safe money is at ] I am attempting to avert a single disaster.
[ and muffled, as he turns his nose down into the pillow: ]
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Date: 2020-10-29 10:45 am (UTC)No easy read, there. ]
Anyone can vanish at any time, is really all. Not just us.
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Date: 2020-10-29 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-25 11:26 am (UTC)[ A pause, before he seems to shake off his own elusive approach and just says— ]
Would you stop yourself from falling in love with someone, here?
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Date: 2020-11-25 09:44 pm (UTC)[ Richard tells the crystal on his desk, reasonably. And: ]
I think you and I both know there’s no risk of that happening.
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Date: 2020-11-27 11:41 am (UTC)—by which I mean, not even only the big capital L type, but becoming close to someone at all. I don't know that I've stayed in one place for this long since childhood.
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Date: 2020-11-28 07:03 am (UTC)Athessa is poorly equipped to manage undesirable outcomes. You are likely to create an undesirable outcome.
I’m not advocating for you to abandon all hope of meaningful connection, [ even if that’s where the safe money is at ] I am attempting to avert a single disaster.
[ and muffled, as he turns his nose down into the pillow: ]
You don’t have to listen to me.
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Date: 2020-11-29 05:57 am (UTC)[ some of that impatience still burning off, but gone as he adds, ]
but I try to.
[ He can virtually see the cartoon z's emanating from his crystal. ]
I like that you care for her. [ A beat, then, having mercy; ] I'll let you go.