Jun 12, 2011 20:29
goddamnthe: cotnari,
quitenacreous: fallon,
#blizzardseason,
- members,
*action,
wouldntthatbe: jerry redmond,
reasonstowar: milo allberry,
dabbadoosie: pebbles,
bookofworlds: payton,
smokingrockstar: maude dante,
creepinginmy: jack gibson & cerbos,
decouvreur: barbet,
eparpillement: jennifer lanaughee,
sesquiterpenes: fela luise delmas ( au )
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There is no wonderment in the sciences, it's all incredibly dreary. It's only by avoiding its analysis that one may find wonder.
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Very limited.
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Old and stuck in my ways, I'm sure you understand.
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[There's a lot of disdain wrapped neatly around that 'attempting'.]
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One can only attempt it, accomplishment comes in the doing.
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Insult him and get it over with.
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Cotnari smiles instead and asks languidly,]
Is that where we were headed?
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I already had. Clearly it was above his head.
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What are you doing here?
[He leaves Barbet's side to go sit down very close to Cotnari, not even batting an eyelash when his face is touched lazily by his old mentor.]
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[He toys with the hair over the boy's ear thoughtfully, admiring his face close up. It is so interesting how boys change in those years after 18. They're treated as if they're grown, but they've only just begun. Few retain their beauty through it, although Carl has done quite well. Perhaps he shouldn't be surprised, he had always been an impressive little thing.]
So this is where you've been. [He fishes his phone out of his pocket, handing it over.] It's always such a pity when they run away, but you have grown up beautifully.
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Shut up, please. [More affection there than wither and bite, but he knows Cotnari is a liar and a flatterer. He certainly doesn't say please to anyone else, even in that tone of sarcasm. He hands the phone back, threatening amiably,] Take me out before you leave.
[He is getting up then, gets caught up briefly having his hand kissed, which makes him snort, while Cotnari gives a sleazy grin that says he knows exactly how unneeded the gesture was. Zinc shakes him off, there will be plenty of time for him later.]
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He and Zinc are not lovers, they are barely friends, but Barbet has a very particular way about sex that ties in extremely closely with his art. Zinc has, on that level, become one of his pieces, and just as he hates the feeders for the way they touch and covet the toys, he dislikes this man's hands. And the simplest solution to that is not to watch them, and certainly not to ask Zinc who he was.]
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He spends a moment thinking about it.]
He really is an idiot.
[Not precisely a reassurance, but Barbet could take it that way if he cared to. Cotnari is a hedonist, with opinions on everything, none of which were sincere or practical.]
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