[It's all safety, isn't it? One way or another, the picture's starting to take shape. Commonality a binding thread between anything once-muzzled.
But that's a deep well to drink from, awareness. Uncomfortable as well, and so with better scenes in sight, he casts himself towards the surface only; cognizant— like an itch in the back of his skull— that something leviathan lurks further down, but only smiling. Only drinking.
The bottle's empty by the time he pulls it back. Scarcely a few drops left.]
Honestly?
[He scoffs.]
I think I was just jealous. Half the city or more under his control, and he gets fawned over like it's some revolutionary thing to host a murderous fête?
People die all the time. Just because someone's bled to death instead of choking on a cheese wheel or beheaded for being caught fucking a grand duke's mistress doesn't make it special. [Hells, from what he's read even Tevinter dabbles in a little bloodplay before hors d'oeuvres.]
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But that's a deep well to drink from, awareness. Uncomfortable as well, and so with better scenes in sight, he casts himself towards the surface only; cognizant— like an itch in the back of his skull— that something leviathan lurks further down, but only smiling. Only drinking.
The bottle's empty by the time he pulls it back. Scarcely a few drops left.]
Honestly?
[He scoffs.]
I think I was just jealous. Half the city or more under his control, and he gets fawned over like it's some revolutionary thing to host a murderous fête?
People die all the time. Just because someone's bled to death instead of choking on a cheese wheel or beheaded for being caught fucking a grand duke's mistress doesn't make it special. [Hells, from what he's read even Tevinter dabbles in a little bloodplay before hors d'oeuvres.]
I've been to better parties.