[Worry does not suit him, but the memory of Wil’s manic anxiety sticks to his skin like sweat. Wil was a nail-biter, he reminds himself. And Tarkin once paced the bridges of ships that could raze this city to the ground in less than an hour.]
I was unaware if you had any planned engagements.
[What he truly knows of this Abigail feels alarmingly small in comparison. It could fill a thimble. At the moment all that comes to mind the plans they made in another life.]
[These are intrinsic animal feelings with clear origin, fear, paternal sentimentality, perhaps even the instincts of the creature he resembles. Knowing that doesn’t dull the feeling.]
[ She'd done her best to hole herself away in her apartment after coming back from the other Ryslig, her solitude taking the edge off losing her other life and family for a while, until it got too much all over again. ]
[Tarkin hasn’t spoken to Bile since they briefly clashed around the time of last year’s circus incident. Odd, he hadn’t felt any particular shame during or in the immediate aftermath of the event. Now his feelings have become decidedly negative. The knowledge that his mind was influenced by Javert’s actions...it’s violating in a way he doesn’t wish to linger on.]
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<wilhuff>
I was unaware if you had any planned engagements.
[What he truly knows of this Abigail feels alarmingly small in comparison. It could fill a thimble. At the moment all that comes to mind the plans they made in another life.][These are intrinsic animal feelings with clear origin, fear, paternal sentimentality, perhaps even the instincts of the creature he resembles. Knowing that doesn’t dull the feeling.]
<antlered>
[ She'd done her best to hole herself away in her apartment after coming back from the other Ryslig, her solitude taking the edge off losing her other life and family for a while, until it got too much all over again. ]
<wilhuff>
How is work?
<antlered>
<wilhuff>
May I ask what you have in mind?
[Tarkin hasn’t spoken to Bile since they briefly clashed around the time of last year’s circus incident. Odd, he hadn’t felt any particular shame during or in the immediate aftermath of the event. Now his feelings have become decidedly negative. The knowledge that his mind was influenced by Javert’s actions...it’s violating in a way he doesn’t wish to linger on.]Re: <wilhuff>