1st session - Gabriel SylarpeopletalktomeMarch 24 2010, 01:30:11 UTC
The previous day's curse left the redhead in a state of general panic the midnight of its cutoff. She spent hours awake that she ought to have spent sleeping and then she woke up too early in order to clean her apartment--which was already clean--to the point of scouring, only to then whisper over to her office where she did much the same. When she finishes, it is only eight o'clock and she, not knowing what to do with herself, spends the better part of three hours finding new ways to sub-organize her books and other things she has acquired to give her the semblance of being somewhere she is familiar with. Contradictory for all that she encourages students--or did--daily to step outside of their comfort zones, but she too had planned on a great change before being brought here
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The wringing of his hands alerts her as much as the grasping tone of his voice, as if half of what he means to say is still caught up between his mouth and his mind. She is familiar enough with that problem. Still, she keeps her own silence as he continues, making mental checks and question marks where appropriate and her brow arches automatically, a tilt of her head in conjunction with it as she folds her hands once then again with the other hand overlapping, bowing her head.
"Well," this is her default precursor to just about anything, "They say that there are some people who...who lack a moral code most people keep common between them. These people tend to be the, you know, serial killers, and um, arsonists, and so on. They make their own kind of idea of what is acceptable and what isn't, without adhering to regular ideas about good and bad---right, and wrong. But that doesn't seem to be you." And she pauses because she needs to breathe more than anything before going on, one hand gesturing very slightly, almost as if it simply
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"Something else?" It's both a novel idea and something he's not sure he can even consider. The attention paid to Emma lessens considerably as he tries to figure out the possibilities. He was only ever good at watchmaking, but it was all he tried. But- he shakes his head
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"Well," this is her default precursor to just about anything, "They say that there are some people who...who lack a moral code most people keep common between them. These people tend to be the, you know, serial killers, and um, arsonists, and so on. They make their own kind of idea of what is acceptable and what isn't, without adhering to regular ideas about good and bad---right, and wrong. But that doesn't seem to be you." And she pauses because she needs to breathe more than anything before going on, one hand gesturing very slightly, almost as if it simply ( ... )
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