[Well, there it is. After Jade told him the news it was only a matter of time. He'd spent however long it had been in between trying to figure out what to say and how to approach this but it was becoming rapidly clear he had no idea. Time to face the music, Egbert.]
[It's about an hour or two later before there is a response.]
[looks like somebody's tipped him off if he's not asking what's up. that only serves to irk Rose further. he knows she knows and doesn't come to ask about it? jesus christ.]
[after a few moments she becomes aware she's not alone in the center. after a few more moments she has a feeling he's not leaving she slowly pauses in her decimation of the already quite dead to shoot a wry look in hs direction]
Oh, I see. [she crosses her arms, that wry look only deepening] A more paranoid person than I would make some truly unsettling conclusions from that admission.
[aaaaaand doof. he was just as absorbed in his book as he walked past and took a tumble.] Ugh. The Fall of the House of Lalonde, so soon? Before its time.
[she looks over briefly, less concerned over his well-being and more irritated at the sudden tension on her yarn line. she gives it an experimental tug to see if the ball's underneath him]
Such is the way of those who trust in the constancy of the path they walk. You're treading a structurally unsound building to begin with, after all.
Perhaps you should invest in a high-powered flashlight. I hear the price has gone down dramatically in recent months.
[thaaaank you. she pulls some more yarn off the ball but makes no motion to retrieve it from the walking path. it's everyone else's problem if they trip over it]
[she gives Jade a carefully guarded look, one eyebrow raised. after a moment of just staring her down she gives a light tug on the yarn before turning back to face her book]
[she glances up for a moment, lips quirking into a smile]
Knitting is busywork for the hands, not the eyes. I don't need to stare at what I'm doing to know it'll turn out well. Multi-tasking is useful like that.
I like to think that by leaving my yarn to roll where it will I'm doing the campus a great public service by way of reminding them that constant vigilance should always be practiced.
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[It's about an hour or two later before there is a response.]
yeah.
where do you want to meet, rose?
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Somewhere private.
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[Watching.]
[Just watching]
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I'm sorry, am I hogging the choice corpses?
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I prefer not to fight the creatures here. I merely enjoy watching others.
[He reaches up to brush some hair back behind his ear, taking the opportunity to discreetly wipe the sweat from his brow.]
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Such is the way of those who trust in the constancy of the path they walk. You're treading a structurally unsound building to begin with, after all.
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While I'll certainly walk both heavy and strange in the shadows, that's inherently a problem, I suppose. These shadows keep on changing, after all.
[He sits down in the chair next to her, flipping through the pages to find where he was before he fell.]
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[thaaaank you. she pulls some more yarn off the ball but makes no motion to retrieve it from the walking path. it's everyone else's problem if they trip over it]
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Oh gosh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-
[ She notices who it is and freezes, going quiet. AAAA WAT DO ARE YOU STILL MAD AT ME ROSE ;___; ]
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It's fine.
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[ bffchan ;; ]
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[she was mad at herself and John OOPS. but she's still not turning around.]
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He skips over the yarn, scoops it up carefully and tries to roll it up and place it next to her, whispering quietly.]
I would think it'd be hard knitting and reading at the same time.
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Knitting is busywork for the hands, not the eyes. I don't need to stare at what I'm doing to know it'll turn out well. Multi-tasking is useful like that.
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