[ There's a look from someone off to their right, a pinch-faced woman, and By looks back until she breaks eye contact. There's a pleasure in this - in knowing that he is, at the end of the day, the Ambassador, a political force, with far more weight than any pinch-faced rube, and so anyone who disapproves of him just - well, has to deal with it. Maybe when the war is over he'll lose his courage, or maybe if (when?) he's unceremoniously dumped out of his position, but right now, there's a real pleasure in being able to tell yourself that anyone else can get fucked. ]
Here?
[ This is a spot with, if he remembers, decent coffee - or, more accurately, cheap coffee, slopped out strong. (By's tastes are not so fine as Bastien's.) ]
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Date: 2022-06-22 06:59 pm (UTC)[ There's a look from someone off to their right, a pinch-faced woman, and By looks back until she breaks eye contact. There's a pleasure in this - in knowing that he is, at the end of the day, the Ambassador, a political force, with far more weight than any pinch-faced rube, and so anyone who disapproves of him just - well, has to deal with it. Maybe when the war is over he'll lose his courage, or maybe if (when?) he's unceremoniously dumped out of his position, but right now, there's a real pleasure in being able to tell yourself that anyone else can get fucked. ]
Here?
[ This is a spot with, if he remembers, decent coffee - or, more accurately, cheap coffee, slopped out strong. (By's tastes are not so fine as Bastien's.) ]