[when it suits him, sure, and he'll forever argue that even his own robust acting can't inject actual truth where there isn't any--that sometimes people just want to hear things enough to ignore the hollowness anyway--
but it'd be beside the point. because the point right now is...well.]
Surely that's a pretty dependent question anyway, isn't it? The world is full of countless possibilities. There might even be one that I'd change for. [if it were something for you, almost typed, but...not, in the end. because many things have shifted, but some forms of openness are still very difficult. for hugo, anyway. as they both know. ...instead, a rare concession in itself:] Although...I suppose you aren't wrong, that I don't often do it. That it might be a trying affair.
But in the end, it was not something I could change anyway. Apparently. So...it was something on your part? [sensing a bit of a cornering anyway, it seems!]
Oh? How fascinating. You've always stayed to the path you've believed in without straying, even if the means no longer justify the end. But I suppose that is part of who you are.
[ sure, hugo has done ... things that have benefited the greater good in some ways, but at the end of the day, it was an advantage for hugo and the end has always justified the means for him. lycaon isn't one to judge his actions; that's just how he is from the start, and he doesn't think anyone can change so easily or quickly.
"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?
hugo really yaps a lot, impressively so. and while lycaon would normally yap back in the same manner, but there's something about this conversation that he doesn't want to be entirely forthcoming with. never mind that it's entirely out of character for him and hugo, well ... hugo will probably point it out soon. ]
The excuse that I have important business to attend to wouldn't have worked on you, as you seem to have visibility on my schedule.
Does it concern you that my departure may have been related to you? If so, then rest easy, because it's not, as churlish and loutish you can get at times.
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[when it suits him, sure, and he'll forever argue that even his own robust acting can't inject actual truth where there isn't any--that sometimes people just want to hear things enough to ignore the hollowness anyway--
but it'd be beside the point. because the point right now is...well.]
Surely that's a pretty dependent question anyway, isn't it? The world is full of countless possibilities. There might even be one that I'd change for. [if it were something for you, almost typed, but...not, in the end. because many things have shifted, but some forms of openness are still very difficult. for hugo, anyway. as they both know. ...instead, a rare concession in itself:] Although...I suppose you aren't wrong, that I don't often do it. That it might be a trying affair.
But in the end, it was not something I could change anyway. Apparently. So...it was something on your part? [sensing a bit of a cornering anyway, it seems!]
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Oh? How fascinating.
You've always stayed to the path you've believed in without straying, even if the means no longer justify the end. But I suppose that is part of who you are.
[ sure, hugo has done ... things that have benefited the greater good in some ways, but at the end of the day, it was an advantage for hugo and the end has always justified the means for him. lycaon isn't one to judge his actions; that's just how he is from the start, and he doesn't think anyone can change so easily or quickly.
looooooooooong pause again— ]
Mm, perhaps.
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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?
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hugo really yaps a lot, impressively so. and while lycaon would normally yap back in the same manner, but there's something about this conversation that he doesn't want to be entirely forthcoming with. never mind that it's entirely out of character for him and hugo, well ... hugo will probably point it out soon. ]
The excuse that I have important business to attend to wouldn't have worked on you, as you seem to have visibility on my schedule.
Does it concern you that my departure may have been related to you? If so, then rest easy, because it's not, as churlish and loutish you can get at times.