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[retrograderesemblance]

@curseconsumed

"Yes, I'm beginning to notice your father cares more for reputation than sense," Ian says this in an absentminded tone, focused more on stuffing tobacco into his pipe than giving Miss Boyd his full attention.

Thumb jammed into the tobacco chamber, he smirks, "I wrote an article about him, you know... before the w.ar, of course. I don't think he remembers. Lord, I hardly remember. Had to do with a court settlement. Odd business. Though, I suppose that sort of oddity is quite normal around here."

He pauses long enough to light his pipe, tossing the scrap kindling into the flames of the hearth.

Sucking in the first inhale of smoke, he exhales with a frown, "What was your question again?"