[ Back to the coffee. Someday the rifters will invent a drip coffee maker; until then, it’s all a little involved. But he jerks his head to try to beckon Byerly closer while his hands are too busy to gesture it. ]
And it was very sweet that you — that I was still here for you somehow. It wasn’t like I was never here at all. That would have been worse. [ Sometimes pretending it’s fine makes it actually a little more fine. That would have been worse. It is very sweet that Byerly conjured up a ghost to fill the space he left behind. He can talk his way into not being wounded at all with enough time to do it. ] And I think you still thought I was handsome. Letting me stay like that. What a sucker.
[ Teasing, again, though it’s a little more grim than before. ]
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Date: 2025-01-21 07:41 pm (UTC)[ Back to the coffee. Someday the rifters will invent a drip coffee maker; until then, it’s all a little involved. But he jerks his head to try to beckon Byerly closer while his hands are too busy to gesture it. ]
And it was very sweet that you — that I was still here for you somehow. It wasn’t like I was never here at all. That would have been worse. [ Sometimes pretending it’s fine makes it actually a little more fine. That would have been worse. It is very sweet that Byerly conjured up a ghost to fill the space he left behind. He can talk his way into not being wounded at all with enough time to do it. ] And I think you still thought I was handsome. Letting me stay like that. What a sucker.
[ Teasing, again, though it’s a little more grim than before. ]