Earlier, I... thought I was a professor of ... small creature studies. And that Gideon and Harrowhark and Four and Lavi were... my proteges. Going out to learn to battle with... little creatures. And that they were ten.
[ a beat. ] It wore off eventually, so... stay strong?
[...Oh, like hells he's letting you get away after a flinch like that, LBX, that's the exact flinch he was doing himself last week when people were using careless metaphors like "fall on your sword" around him. He knows what that flinch looks like. He is an expert practitioner of it.]
[ well, he won't try and fight it too much. mostly because he knows that thancred won't let him get away with it, at this point, so bixing just agrees, quietly.
his eyes, however, do sweep the room briefly, at the other occupants; mostly dva, gideon, and harrow. they return to thancred after, brows knit, expression a little pleading. ] And it may have been different... different for the others. Each of us seems to have experienced something... similar, but unique.
[ in other words: i'll tell you later. not in front of the kids. :( ]
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Earlier, I... thought I was a professor of ... small creature studies. And that Gideon and Harrowhark and Four and Lavi were... my proteges. Going out to learn to battle with... little creatures. And that they were ten.
[ a beat. ] It wore off eventually, so... stay strong?
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[sighs deeply]
And that it doesn't seem...malevolent, at least.
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No. Not malevolent at all.
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...But something else was. Is that it?
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[ well, he won't try and fight it too much. mostly because he knows that thancred won't let him get away with it, at this point, so bixing just agrees, quietly.
his eyes, however, do sweep the room briefly, at the other occupants; mostly dva, gideon, and harrow. they return to thancred after, brows knit, expression a little pleading. ] And it may have been different... different for the others. Each of us seems to have experienced something... similar, but unique.
[ in other words: i'll tell you later. not in front of the kids. :( ]