"Stubborn and single-minded", isn't it something like that? Or maybe words more uncharitable still, ha. Well, perhaps I've lately accepted that everyone has to have some insufferable flaw or another. Even someone as otherwise immaculate as myself.
[it's indeed how he is, for better or for worse, and it's...still so odd, how lycaon acknowledges this without any evident venom at all now. hugo feels as if he still needs to gain the sealegs for this new dynamic they've stumbled into now: no longer the ease of the early days, nor the bitterness of the recent past, but instead some...new secret third thing. hm.
........with pauses this long you're going to sip that teacup empty in a single gulp sir--]
"Perhaps", though? Really? Don't tell me you're going to have me working through your entire thesaurus of evasive non-answers, here. "Maybe", "possibly", "feasibly"...shall we skip over any other ones?
You know, at this point you could just say you had some pressing business come up or something. Even if I already know that's entirely untrue. But at least then you'd be committing to some direction or another, yes?
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[it's indeed how he is, for better or for worse, and it's...still so odd, how lycaon acknowledges this without any evident venom at all now. hugo feels as if he still needs to gain the sealegs for this new dynamic they've stumbled into now: no longer the ease of the early days, nor the bitterness of the recent past, but instead some...new secret third thing. hm.
........with pauses this long you're going to sip that teacup empty in a single gulp sir--]
"Perhaps", though? Really? Don't tell me you're going to have me working through your entire thesaurus of evasive non-answers, here. "Maybe", "possibly", "feasibly"...shall we skip over any other ones?
You know, at this point you could just say you had some pressing business come up or something. Even if I already know that's entirely untrue. But at least then you'd be committing to some direction or another, yes?