(CLOSED) You wouldn't hurt them

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WHO: Gela and you
WHAT: h/c (hafterdemon content)
WHEN: After pride, before the fall <- modplot
WHERE: Many different places
NOTES: Reference to & discussion of kidnapping, mistreatment, starvation, trauma, neglect

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She giggles, the sound low and soft, trailing Gwenaëlle's whistle. Admits, "He's the most beautiful person I've ever been with." A shame it had to be short and sweet, but much better than nothing at all. Still, she wishes he was here now, giving her his hands to hold.

"... They're not bad, are they. Beards. I like the way they feel."

Scratchy in a good way she thinks, touching and being touched by them so different from memories of what it felt like to kiss Pavia that she can't possibly tangle them together and miss her even harder than she already does. Maybe that's why she likes it.

"What else. Have I missed any other gossip?"

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“...probably,” Gwenaëlle concedes, a moment after she might have (very instinctively) said, no, I don't think so which is really a purely vibes based answer; she's been busy, that doesn't mean no one else was doing anything someone might gossip about. Or even that she, necessarily, is totally unaware— just that there are a lot of happenings she discards to the I don't care about that pile while sifting through her own observations. To wit: “I miss most of it and I was here the whole time. Who that reflects on, I'm sure I don't know.”

It might be her. On the other hand, has everyone else tried being more interesting?

“Though Lexie does routinely despair of me about it. And she's back, which is lovely, so there's that, actually.”

With any luck, nothing explosive will result out of the intricate cat's cradle that Lexie has made of her own love life, but Gwenaëlle is boringly discreet when it comes to other people's affairs: she only thinks so, and doesn't say it.

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"Lexie," Gela echoes, wondering, "Back?"

She hasn't heard of Lexie before. Hang on, this is a much better question to ask than 'have I missed any gossip' because Gwenaëlle doesn't seem to care about such things (why, Gela does not know, why wouldn't you want to know all of the gossip??): "Are there other people around I may not have met? You should tell me their names so I don't embarrass myself."

'Sorry, I don't actually know who you are because I spent the last month and a half being kidnapped!' apparently counts, to Gela, as being embarrassing.