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[bouchonne]

WHO: Byerly and Kitty and thou or even you
WHAT: Open post!! open post
WHEN: The month of KINGSWAY
WHERE: EVERYWHERE but mostly in Kirkwall and in the Gallows
NOTES: Warning: chatterboxes

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[degenere]

[All through the lecture, Val's smile stays in place. It is a smile that begins to tint toward the patronizing, as if he has already made his mind up about this Rifter, and she is saying things that only further makes up his mind.

Which of course is exactly what she is doing.]

An interesting argument. And you will become a scholar how?

[No wait. He sighs, with some regret.]

Mademoiselle. You mistake me, I think. I am not opening a door for you so that I can boast about opening a door. I do not give a shit, truly. I am saying, here is a door, it is open. And you walk away from it. Well do I understand the need to make one's path in the world alone. But I understand better what it is to use what is offered to me. I love the game that is played, with systems and expectations and traditions. It is a laugh to climb on the shoulders of the highbrow and then kick them in the face once I have been supported.

But! [He claps his hands together, once, briskly.] You will do it alone. Please, tell me when you make your attempt. I should like to see it.

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty cuts in almost immediately, soon as he's done talking. ]

You are highbrow. Disinherited or not.

[degenere]

[He shrugs, carelessly.]

Then it will be easy to take advantage of me, you stupid girl.

[rathercommon]

[ That gets an irritable purse of her lips. ]

I'm not stupid, and if you think so after having talked to me this long, that just means that you're an idiot. I don't want to take advantage of you, either. Honestly, you're - a scholar, whatever. You take pride in your work. You're telling me that if someone offered to let you take a peek at some...artefact or something, but in a really condescending way, you wouldn't throw it right back in their face?

[degenere]

It is a commendable impression of stupidity, then. And of course I would throw condescension into the face of a condescender.

After I had looked at the object.

[rathercommon]

[ She shakes her head. ]

And how would you do that, exactly?

[degenere]

With my eyes.

[rathercommon]

[ Rolling her eyes: ]

Don't be an idiot.

[degenere]

You asked. And anyways, I am not sure, still, what you are exactly asking of me. How would I throw condescension in the face? I would play along and act dutifully impressed--

[He puts on a face of sincerity, wide eyes, an overall earnestness--]

All to get what it was that I wanted. And then I would turn on this condescender once I had it. Very simple, and very amusing. I have done it often.

[rathercommon]

[ She wrinkles her nose at his "sincere" face. ]

How. How did you turn on them.