i’ve been waiting on the fault line | OTA

[limier]

WHO: Wren Coupe, Melys, Casimir Lyov, Finch Wicker + YOU
WHAT: Catchall for the month
WHEN: Mid- whatever this month is i give up
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Will edit as appropriate

 

Editing these in as I go, if you’d like a specific starter please hmu on plurk or discord (oeste#8807). ♥

Comments

[elegiaque]

( She considers it—earnestly, weighing up how delighted she can't imagine him being that she's gone behind his back versus how sensible she still presumes he will find her, when he is in his right mind again as she is certain he is not currently—and finally, with some confidence, settles on: )

He will probably say I'm being cosseting and unreasonable and that he's perfectly well, but no. I don't think so.

[aestivation]

[ he nods, at something of a loss for how to proceed — ]

Thank you for coming to me. [ too practiced. but it buys a moment to find the words: ] If you require anything of research in the coming days, please inform me as well.

[ that can't be why they're speaking. he knows the personnel files, and knows her name absent from them. knows, too, the publications that still dot an occasional bookshelf. the other elf, the one that looks like thranduil, within. ]

If he's difficult to reach in other matters, I'll do what I'm able.

[ it doesn't occur to ask what those matters might be. not his business. ]

[elegiaque]

Just what you've agreed to do is plenty, ( firmly, politely, and rising—

there's no need to linger awkwardly (even if lingering awkwardly is a particular skill of hers), particularly when they're in absolute agreement about what is and is not his business. He'd be a poor choice of confidante for a lot of reasons, but not least of them is that she finds the idea of absolutely not caring sort of freeing, theoretically. It's hardly sporting to then drag him around and about other people's irrelevant and oftentimes inconvenient feelings.

Probably you can't even make someone who isn't a mage Tranquil. )

Thank you for your time.

( Gratitude may or may not carry weight, but she thinks consideration of his time seems—reasonable. Considerate? It isn't something that comes entirely naturally. )