[ While Herc's definition of friendship skews in one direction, Alayne's skews in another. For the longest time she'd forgotten what friendship meant and instead simply surrounded herself with the helpful and the useful — those that could protect her and those she could benefit from. (Move or be move, Petyr had said and Alayne had been done playing at being a pawn.) ]
Isaac is old enough to be my father, yet I've never had a friend dearer or more true.
[ He's seen the parts of her she tries so hard to hide and he's never judged her for them. If anything, it's made him love her more. Could anyone else make such a claim?
But talk of Isaac subdues her, makes her a little silent and sullen. ]
Soon, I think.
[ Another pause. ]
Perhaps, if you are not too busy, I could see you as well.
[ it isn't that he doesn't want to see her (or maybe, some part of him doesn't, after that little admission; not sure if he can face the doe eyes of her expression and the gentle of her hands), it's just that they've got their work cut out for them. whether or not this is really about finding Isaac, Herc isn't going to do things half way.
[ It isn't no, so Alayne considers that a victory since men of the marshal's disposition were often quite fond of the word. It isn't a shut door or a turned back; by not refusing her outright, Alayne sees the sliver of opportunity left to her (a seam, a crack, a gate left ajar). If she were cruel, she would try to press such an advantage but as it stands the marshal has given her something already. It should and will suffice for now. Alayne doesn't press. ]
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heracleidae) wrote2013-09-06 11:57 pm
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Isaac is old enough to be my father, yet I've never had a friend dearer or more true.
[ He's seen the parts of her she tries so hard to hide and he's never judged her for them. If anything, it's made him love her more. Could anyone else make such a claim?
But talk of Isaac subdues her, makes her a little silent and sullen. ]
Soon, I think.
[ Another pause. ]
Perhaps, if you are not too busy, I could see you as well.
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[ it isn't that he doesn't want to see her (or maybe, some part of him doesn't, after that little admission; not sure if he can face the doe eyes of her expression and the gentle of her hands), it's just that they've got their work cut out for them. whether or not this is really about finding Isaac, Herc isn't going to do things half way.
he never has. ]
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Very well.