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unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing

Jan 20, 2008 16:57

To be lonely was to admit defeat, that was how the evening star saw it. To be defeated, was to be pathetic, which was how humanity saw it, or at least that’s how she’d come to gather, from her time on the ground and her time watching. Being pathetic was not a very good thing, now or then, and probably never would be ( Read more... )

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xiii_pullo January 20 2008, 23:25:32 UTC

Pullo came upon Yvaine and smiled, but his expression soon changed to something much like confusion.

"What's that? I hope you aren't hungry enough to eat a mouse, love," he said, concerned.

to_catch January 21 2008, 01:19:47 UTC

Carefully the star picked up the cage, staring with horror at the squeaking mouse which stared back.

"It's...oh Tristran, I hope you're all right," she told the mouse, before turning took at Pullo, half glaring at him. "I wouldn't eat him, I love him."

xiii_pullo January 21 2008, 02:07:01 UTC

Pullo didn't quite know what to make of that. He hadn't missed how she'd called it the name of the man she'd left back where she came from.

Or at least he thought Tristan had been a man, the way she'd talked about him.

"That's your Tristan?"

to_catch January 21 2008, 09:33:35 UTC

"Yes," she said, sighing quite hopelessly, because it felt quite hopeless. At this point, Yvaine wasn't certain if it was more pathetic to be lonely or to have her love turn up in the form of a cheese loving rodent.

"I...oh bollocks. He's not normally a dormouse he just stood up to a witch and his mother was a bird and oh--" She made a noise that was something like a sob and held the cage up to her eyes. Tristran the mouse blinked back. "He's quite the stubborn and thick and obnoxious if not foppishly handsome man. As a mouse, he's just...furry. This makes us pathetic you know."

xiii_pullo January 21 2008, 13:20:57 UTC

Some very strange things went on in other parts of the world, or at least Britain.

Pullo's brows furrowed in concern at the sound of her sob. He didn't like to see women cry, wasn't right. She shouldn't have to be so sad over a...mouse.

"There, love," he said gently, placing a hand on the small of her back. "It's not pathetic. If a witch did this to him, maybe we could find another witch to undo it, aye?"

to_catch January 21 2008, 21:19:57 UTC

That sort of logic made sense to her, it really did, except for the part where it had been undo.

"Yes, except you see, it'd been undone, and sure he was still an idiot and still in-love with that twit Victoria who wanted to braid my hair or some such, I'm not exactly used to this sort thing." Feeling a bit out of it, she looked at him quite emphatically, trying to convey that this was not her idea of normal. "I'm not."

xiii_pullo January 22 2008, 00:23:42 UTC

"I know," Pullo said, gentler still, his eyes trying to convey that he too was not used to this sort of thing. "But there are many people here, surely one of them can help. Your Tristan probably came from a different time as you is all. Like Lucius and me."

to_catch January 22 2008, 02:00:29 UTC

"Is Lucius your person?" The way that Yvaine said this, giving a meaningful jolt of the head to convey that by person, she meant person and she was a star of all things so really she couldn't and wouldn't judge, so it wasn't anything to her. Maybe. She didn't think. "I don't know what I'm more distressed about, the fact that I'm alone, or the fact that I'm now his nursemaid."

xiii_pullo January 22 2008, 02:59:40 UTC

Pullo's eyes widened, then narrowed. Almost in the space of a second. "What? No. Lucius is my friend. A brother. I was married," he added, both to defend his masculinity and to remind her.

to_catch January 22 2008, 07:03:36 UTC

"I just wasn't quite certain. And you never do know, I'm sorry," she replied, nodding her head slightly and reaching her finger into cage to scratch Tristran's side. "Love is a funny thing, it's awkward and uncomfortable and unbearable and infuriating, and quite easy to mistake for loathing."

xiii_pullo January 23 2008, 01:51:01 UTC

Titus wasn't sure what she meant at first, as there wasn't a time he could remember ever loathing Eirene. He thought of Lucius, though, and how rocky their friendship had been at first.

"Sometimes, aye," he said with a fond smile.

The thought of his sweet wife showing up as a creature instead of herself made the smile all but disappear. "I'm sorry he came here like this. It's cruel."

to_catch January 23 2008, 06:23:28 UTC

It had been quite easy for Yvaine to loathe Tristran. He had tied her up just after she had fallen from the sky and then proceeded to try to pawn her off to a girl who he had talked about almost incessantly. Plus he had been something of a moron.

Opening the cage door, she put her hand in and pulled him out, holding him tenderly in her palm and giving him a look that suggested that if he bit her, it would be the last thing he did. "It is, but worse things have happened. I think, maybe, I don't know, the unicorns will like him I think, and he can sleep in my bed now."

xiii_pullo January 24 2008, 04:17:08 UTC

Titus didn't quite know what to say to that. He scratched the back of his head and eyed the mouse with a scowling little frown.

"What if he's stuck a mouse forever?" he asked hesitantly, hoping the question didn't make her cry. Or hit him.

to_catch January 27 2008, 00:34:06 UTC

That idea stuck in her heart like a little rock. Only it was hard and thorny and hurt a great deal more.

She froze and tried very hard not to squeeze. "Oh." The star's nose twitched. "I...don't think I'd like that."

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