At the same time, not everyone in Milliways knows how to guard their thoughts - or even that there would be reason to. A heady mix of elation and dread - or at least anticipation - might lead Charles' attention to a girl in the rafters. She's maybe eighteen, wearing all black, and very much keeping an eye out for someone (that's where the anticipation comes in).
The comment startles her - but fortunately (for him), she doesn't connect the question to her thought process so much as to her stance. And the fact that she happens to be facing the door. "I suppose you could say that," she says. Really, if her mother's here, she almost feels that they might as well talk and get it over with. Even though she doesn't really want to, in a way.
"It's not that simple." And perhaps, in some ways, it would be better if they met here - but on the other hand that means they'll actually have to talk. "I have it on good authority that my mother comes here." Most of the details he'll get are about the absence of her mother, actually. One of the strongest is a man with Rosa's hair but not many of her other features, almost too drunk to talk, telling her how much she looks like her mother. (She's never been fond of that.)
"Do you wish her to know? Perhaps you could leave her a note and then you control when the meeting happens. That can be quite powerful and show her how you've grown up."
"I..." Rosa hesitates. She does want it to happen, she doesn't want it to happen, she really has no idea at all whether it'll do any good. "I want answers," she finally says. (Cate told Rosa, when she was five or six summers old, that their mother left because she didn't love them anymore. Cate also refused to talk to Rosa after she went into the Guild.)
A heady mix of elation and dread - or at least anticipation - might lead Charles' attention to a girl in the rafters. She's maybe eighteen, wearing all black, and very much keeping an eye out for someone (that's where the anticipation comes in).
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"Waiting for someone?"
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"I suppose you could say that," she says. Really, if her mother's here, she almost feels that they might as well talk and get it over with. Even though she doesn't really want to, in a way.
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It's odd to look at her up in the rafters but it reminds him of something he could see Raven doing so leans on the counter.
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"If you don't wish it to happen then why not prevent it?"
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Most of the details he'll get are about the absence of her mother, actually. One of the strongest is a man with Rosa's hair but not many of her other features, almost too drunk to talk, telling her how much she looks like her mother.
(She's never been fond of that.)
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"Have you agreed to meet with her?"
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"I want answers," she finally says.
(Cate told Rosa, when she was five or six summers old, that their mother left because she didn't love them anymore. Cate also refused to talk to Rosa after she went into the Guild.)
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His telepathy suits his personality as Charles likes to help.
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"She left us. I want to know why."
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Later they will be but not now. Charles stretches, this is an uncomfortable position.
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