Jul 23, 2024
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"It doesn't have to go this way."
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"It doesn't have to go this way."
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"Oh, I'm just watching the faces in the crowd. Allowin' myself a few old-fashioned flights of fancy."
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"Sooner or later, I suppose, we all have to decide which of our values we really care about more than the others."
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"You'll have to excuse the mess— I haven't had a proper office in years, and I'm afraid the maid service hasn't been by this week."
@imacting asked ⇒ ❛ sorry, did you want to be alone? ❞
He'd been staring at... it's hard to say what, bright eyes distant over the hand covering the lower half of his face, thumb drumming absently against his jaw.
The very picture of the preoccupied detective lost in thought. Like you'd lifted right him out of the pages of a dime novel.
There's something more real underneath that, though, an exhaustion he'd maybe genuinely try to hide if he didn't suspect that would be somewhat useless to attempt with someone like her.
"Oh, ahh— No, no. Nevermind me, I drive myself to distraction out here all alone." He shakes his head and raises a hand to wave off that concern with a sheepish amiability. "Please, have a seat."
that wasn't our fault. / blanc
bullet train starters // accepting!
He steps back with a cartoonish look of perplexity— hands half-raised, eyebrows leaping for the receding line of his hair.
"I certainly hope not," he answers, so consciously not an accusation that it verges on oratorical.