PC: Arthur Starling

[sexyasmieu]

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[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?

[expiries]

Because we needed to.

[thanks that answers everything]

[sexyasmieu]

... Was someone trying to hurt your family?

[expiries]

What about you, Miss Tatlin? Why did you learn - what is it? Fonic artes?

[sexyasmieu]

[ ... she leans back in her seat, her feet dangling above the floor. ]

Just between you and me...

[ she's been prying a bunch, so she might as well give a real answer, instead of a cutesy one. ]

Because someone was hurting my family.

[expiries]

[...]

Are they safe now?

[sexyasmieu]

[ she thinks about that... and then there's a small, pained smile. ]

Yeah... they are now.

[expiries]

[ah. after a moment:]

Are they - still with you?

[sexyasmieu]

[ whatever that moment of pain was, it's gone, and she's back to smiling easily. ]

Yeah! I mean, I don't see them as much, because I've been away travelling. But we all live at the cathedral together.

[expiries]

[pauses, but then decides not to pry in turn.]

What were you traveling for?

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[sexyasmieu]

Kind of a lot of things... I was working as an attendant to the Fon Master, who's a really important person in our world... and like, one day, he turned to me and said...