[just as a river ever so gradually wears the edges off a stone...or maybe, it's something not quite that naturally poetic. something rather more troublesome. the persistent serenading nuisance at the window finally getting a response, perhaps, following night after night of little taps on the glass and strange songs ceaselessly offered. not like the pattern's terribly subtle either, is it? when the conversations always start out so lighthearted, and yet somehow end up...
well. like this.
lycaon would call it a rather gauche fixation on tragedy, yet another of hugo's numerous bad habits--something he just can't help but pick at and dig into every time it snags upon his attention, whether said tragedy is his own or...potentially, somebody else's. but it's not as if there aren't other factors at play this moment too. not as if it isn't almost a little alarmingly relatable. the tender matter of a beloved sibling...and this particular perspective wise lays down now. which is--]
So, even as the future carries such a possibility just a bit too tangible...you'd still keep your focus on the present, and all the ways in which it can be cherished to the fullest. Is that right?
[what a very deliberate sort of answer. an answer that chooses not to yet confront that hypothetical future at all. whether wise has truly resolved to set it aside, or simply won't delve in it here with hugo specifically...well, either way, there's something to respect in that. even if hugo finds it a sort of perspective very difficult to imagine.
because surely wise remains fully aware, of the line of work both he and his sister currently court. the dangerous world phaethon seems intent on prying ever deeper into, whatever the reason might be. the worst-case scenario grows ever more likely the further one progresses, and there comes a point where one should start planning for such painful possibilities. yet...]
What an interesting view of it. Maybe it's that I'm a rather pessimistic person myself...yours isn't the first answer that would occur to me at all. Might not be such a bad state of mind to exercise in its own ways, though...
[and maybe it's not something he has a place to criticize right now. ha.]
To spoil her now while you still can, huh? Hmm. By this sort of philosophy...do you suppose maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea, to train up a second cute bird for Vivian after all? Not as a debt, but as a surprise instead--could that be a sort of spoiling as well? Too much, not enough?
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well. like this.
lycaon would call it a rather gauche fixation on tragedy, yet another of hugo's numerous bad habits--something he just can't help but pick at and dig into every time it snags upon his attention, whether said tragedy is his own or...potentially, somebody else's. but it's not as if there aren't other factors at play this moment too. not as if it isn't almost a little alarmingly relatable. the tender matter of a beloved sibling...and this particular perspective wise lays down now. which is--]
So, even as the future carries such a possibility just a bit too tangible...you'd still keep your focus on the present, and all the ways in which it can be cherished to the fullest. Is that right?
[what a very deliberate sort of answer. an answer that chooses not to yet confront that hypothetical future at all. whether wise has truly resolved to set it aside, or simply won't delve in it here with hugo specifically...well, either way, there's something to respect in that. even if hugo finds it a sort of perspective very difficult to imagine.
because surely wise remains fully aware, of the line of work both he and his sister currently court. the dangerous world phaethon seems intent on prying ever deeper into, whatever the reason might be. the worst-case scenario grows ever more likely the further one progresses, and there comes a point where one should start planning for such painful possibilities. yet...]
What an interesting view of it. Maybe it's that I'm a rather pessimistic person myself...yours isn't the first answer that would occur to me at all. Might not be such a bad state of mind to exercise in its own ways, though...
[and maybe it's not something he has a place to criticize right now. ha.]
To spoil her now while you still can, huh? Hmm. By this sort of philosophy...do you suppose maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea, to train up a second cute bird for Vivian after all? Not as a debt, but as a surprise instead--could that be a sort of spoiling as well? Too much, not enough?