*Obviously someone's New Year resolution list was lacking the "give up smoking" standard - although the evil tobacco itself is not currently lit. The captain takes up his usual place against a wall, cigar-holder in hand, right arm folded behind his back
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"What're you trying to avoid actually asking about?"
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Hello, Ali. I thought the question quite open and not designed to avoid anything...
*Well, there's design, and then there's intention.*
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"Fine, be difficult today. You'll just have to come and apologize to me for it when you come to your senses."
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"Not really, I don't think. 'Least, I don't think I think that. If I avoid somethin', I'm scared of it, plain an' simple."
"Heya. How're you doin'?"
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*As to how he's doing? His voice is slightly more gravelly than normal, indicating that he's got a throat-based cold, or possibly that he's been chainsmoking those damn cigars, who can say.*
I think, perhaps, that there may be many different varieties of scared.
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Ah. Smoking. Golly. She had a whole lot of friends who smoked, so she didn't mind it and she hardly noticed nowadays. Also, her city was polluted like woah. But smoking did give one a rather distinctive voice, and an equally distinctive cough. She shall have her ears open.
"I fear I ain't very creative with m' scared-feelin's. 'S only scared-scared an' worried-scared." Both of which she'd experienced within the past few days, if the circles under her eyes were any indication. Silly Victor.
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Have you never felt scared at the same time as feeling something else? Something different?
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And what is your expertise, might I ask?
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But in making such a broad subject your expertise, surely you would have to understand the desire to live, and the desire to die?
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Mister Finn. No, I have none to give to you.
And why would you say you held that opinion?
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*he seems to become abruptly irritated. Mercurial as ever, especially when some little guttersnipe is after his cigars*
You can find practically anything you wish in this place, so it seems. If you spend enough time looking.
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"Depends on the event in question."
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It seems there is an event in your recent past that I should enquire about...
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"Christmas muggers, trying to take a ladies bags away. Had to put a stop to it. They cut me." She explained simply and softly.
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Common thieves have neither style nor manners.
*And heaven help anyone who should presume to question him on his own twisted sense of good form*
I hope they did not live to regret their choice of target.
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