PC: Arthur Starling

[sexyasmieu]

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[sexyasmieu]

[ she'll lead them to a sofa to sit on! and will sit with some space between them. she'll let him sit in silence for a minute or two, then... ]

... So... did something happen? Or is this like, a medical condition or a phobia or something?

[expiries]

Nothing happened.

[...]

I just - have a bad experience. With deep water. It's nothing.

[sexyasmieu]

Do you mean like, you almost drowned or something?

[expiries]

It's a long story.

[sexyasmieu]

Well... it can be therapeutic to talk through this kind of stuff, I've heard...

[ she just wants to know. ]

[expiries]

I don't need therapy.

[wrong, untrue, incorrect, unfounded]

[sexyasmieu]

I wouldn't believe a single person on this ship saying that, but especially not you.

[expiries]

Why especially not me...

[sexyasmieu]

The quiet ones are always the ones with the most baggage!

Also, I'm pretty sure you just had a panic attack, so.

[expiries]

I don't have baggage.

[lmao]

[sexyasmieu]

You're a bad liar, too...

[expiries]

...I think I'm feeling fine now, Miss Tatlin, if you wanted to go.

[sexyasmieu]

You really don't like talking about yourself, huh...

[expiries]

Not particularly, no.

[sexyasmieu]

Why not?

[expiries]

I'm not so interesting. Don't concern yourself with it.

[sexyasmieu]

I mean... you almost fooled me into thinking that, but just today, you looked really cool fighting those things! So I think you're definitely more interesting than you let on.

[expiries]

Knowing how to fight doesn't make you interesting.

[sexyasmieu]

Well, then, what totally-boring-and-uninteresting way did you learn how to fight?

[expiries]

...My mother taught me.

[little feathers start poking out of the cuffs of his sleeves.]

[sexyasmieu]

What's she like?

[expiries]

[...]

She was strong. Brave.

[sexyasmieu]

[ THE PAST TENSE...... ]

She must have been pretty incredible...

[expiries]

[it's fine]

Yes. Both her and my father were.

[sexyasmieu]

Did your whole family learn to fight? Why?