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008 // varied // it's hiding in the grass

Oct 16, 2011 15:16

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[ The camera is pointed down at a hallway floor at some tendrils of vine visibly growing and tangling into each other. It's clearly intentional, as Lua's voice starts speaking a moment after.Kind of thing's been going on a lot like with snow or sand or moss, so... I guess everyone knows already? But... if you wanted to get to the ( Read more... )

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[private] feels_no_love October 17 2011, 03:10:36 UTC

Lua...are you all right?

Re: [private] dovehearted October 17 2011, 03:16:13 UTC

[ oh good he's talking to her; she didn't know if she'd just have to let everything stay balled up inside forever ]

It's all right. Promise.

Don't want to talk like this, though.

[private] feels_no_love October 17 2011, 03:19:07 UTC

That is all right. Was your instruction meant for me?

Re: [private] dovehearted October 17 2011, 03:36:10 UTC

Just you. [ Is he worried she's going to turn this into some woman scorned scene? It's just between them. ]

[private] feels_no_love October 18 2011, 02:19:32 UTC

As you wish. [He has a feeling this is going to be awkward...]

[spam]

[...but he shows up anyway, a little before nine actually to scope out any strangeness or eavesdroppers. All he gets however is a lounge where giant red-spotted mushrooms have replaced the chairs.]

Well, this is interesting.

Re: [private] dovehearted October 18 2011, 02:31:37 UTC

[ She's already there waiting for him, sitting neatly and shrunken in with her hands pressed in her lap. Whatever it is that lights in her eyes when she sees him, she damps it back down. ]

It's better. [ She tries a smile, still genuine but taking an effort. ] Been a while.

[private] feels_no_love October 18 2011, 02:40:53 UTC

[He nods and draws near but not too near, then shrugs and hops up onto a brightly colored toadstool, dropping into a crouch.] If not for the other circumstances troubling my friends I would find the environmental malfunction rather amusing.

...it has been.

[He's disconcerted by the affect her scent has on him, and sighs at himself.] Behave.

You have still been practicing, yes?

lol spam dovehearted October 18 2011, 02:52:01 UTC

[ She looks back at him almost with a spark of pride and nods. He won't speak first, doesn't even know what this is about, but what comes out only puts it off. ] I had to. Learned a lot.

spamz! feels_no_love October 18 2011, 03:34:09 UTC

Good, good. I am sorry I had to...go away for a while, but I am like iron in that respect--I need some time to cool off.

[He can't help remembering. He knew part of it had been desperation to get away from those terrible feelings, but the rest...well. That had been all them.]

spam dovehearted October 18 2011, 16:13:17 UTC

[ She presses her lips together and looks away. He doesn't need to soften this for her, and he can't be trying to for himself when he knows how much it hurt. ] You don't need to say that.

[ And here it comes; she has to do this now, actually ask from him like she never did when he had her. She breathes in and pushes her fingertips together to keep her hands from twitching. If she could be more turned inside herself, she would be, and her eyes keep counting spots on the mushroom in front of her instead of looking up. ]

I do. [ That's not all. ] Thought you either knew, or you wouldn't care. And I shouldn't have said anything at all about it but...

spam feels_no_love October 19 2011, 02:19:14 UTC

[He fidgets and steeples his fingers.] I'm not the best with emotional things. But...

I like you. I did from the beginning or I would not have offered to help you. It never was just about pleasing Aleera. Unfortunately I am a very passionate man, and I became more...involved...than I should have.

When I said I needed to cool off, it wasn't because I was angry. Nor was it because I don't...care. I just didn't want to complicate your life with my desires.

spam dovehearted October 19 2011, 03:20:59 UTC

[ No. It doesn't go like this. Any other time she'd let herself cry, and he'd think she couldn't handle this and either get angry or take her back, but she has to talk now. She's not the one who needs to hear what she's saying. ]

But you didn't do anything wrong. You thought it was all right until you found out what I was doing.

spam feels_no_love October 20 2011, 01:38:17 UTC

No, I knew it wasn't all right. You're in a professional relationship with Aleera and it...

...well, it wasn't where things were supposed to go. I was supposed to be helping you. I am at least partly to blame for this. I accept it.

I still like you, though.

Re: spam dovehearted October 20 2011, 02:09:59 UTC

[ She knows how bad this is going to sound, but she has to say it. ]

... couldn't take your help. Just like that. There always has to be something.

spam feels_no_love October 20 2011, 04:09:45 UTC

[He looks a little shocked--but only a little. He comes from a time when trading favors for protection was absolutely common. But...]

I understand. But in honesty all I expected from you in return was for you to pay attention and practice. The rest...

...matters of desire are always so complicated when they should not be. Suffice it to say that you should not offer me diamonds as compensation for a fistful of copper.

[An embarrassed glance away.] I hope that once things are less...awkward, that we can still be friends. I know this may take time, however.

Re: spam dovehearted October 20 2011, 04:40:11 UTC

[ She tries to smile and shakes her head, like that was letting her off easy. He's not going to understand, he's got some idea in his head about how he's the one who was wrong. ]

...could have been more. For what you wanted to give me. But I couldn't. [ He could have drained her, and she doesn't know now if she'd have told him no or not, not if he was the one keeping her safe here. ]

[ She's been trying to stay away from everything about friends. What she wants isn't what she can have, and she doesn't want to count on something when she doesn't know what he'll think. ]

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