And as always, I feel exactly the same. You've done plenty for my heart just with your company, my friend.
[ uuu... these gestures - weeks later, he's still not quite used to them. he takes the glass from him, smiling softly, though there's an obvious tiredness to it, today. ] Thank you.
[ he looks down at his wineglass, swirling it gently just for something to do. ] ...everything gets so hectic, at the end, and these two cases were so tightly intertwined in such odd ways. [ fuckin bruises and sugar and god only knows what else. he closes his eyes briefly, sighs. ] You're precisely right. Though, it is certainly better than how these things are done in the Papal States, it's a failing of a system for the victims, beyond all.
We received such a grim reminder today, that though we have done well to this point, things will slip through the cracks. And...I worry, for what next week may bring, truthfully.
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[ uuu... these gestures - weeks later, he's still not quite used to them. he takes the glass from him, smiling softly, though there's an obvious tiredness to it, today. ] Thank you.
[ he looks down at his wineglass, swirling it gently just for something to do. ] ...everything gets so hectic, at the end, and these two cases were so tightly intertwined in such odd ways. [ fuckin bruises and sugar and god only knows what else. he closes his eyes briefly, sighs. ] You're precisely right. Though, it is certainly better than how these things are done in the Papal States, it's a failing of a system for the victims, beyond all.
We received such a grim reminder today, that though we have done well to this point, things will slip through the cracks. And...I worry, for what next week may bring, truthfully.