19 - All we are we are

[ambitious_woman]

[It has been quite some time since Reinette brought herself to the Plane. If one looked closely enough, the especially pale almost translucent coloring to her skin might suggest as to why. But only, really, if one looked

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[ambitious_woman]

[she glances at his through the mirror]

How strange, since I seem to still be in possession of it.

[ambitious_woman]

[at that she actually turns, looking at him squarely]

Have you eaten something that did not disagree with you? Have a fight with your Doctor, perhaps?

[ambitious_woman]

[she glances at him sharply, though there is a flare of a smile at points granted. There, then gone]

You know me well enough that you can speak plainly, I believe. I obviously do not know what you refer to.

[ambitious_woman]

[she continues to stare ahead, for no other reason than to not so obviously react to his own change of position]

That is certainly off-putting. [evenly] And what happened then?

[ambitious_woman]

[she turns to look at him finally]

I was just another conquest then?

[ambitious_woman]

[She regards him evenly. And because she would ask?]

Did you take pleasure in it?

[ambitious_woman]

I do not believe that to be the entire truth.

[ambitious_woman]

No. I mean that sometimes I think you do not do it to feel something at all. That you do it to not feel something else.