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Dec. 24th, 2007 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Stairs are not...let us try this again.
Where would you prefer to collapse, your room or the road? For a stairway is really a road, and this one has heavy traffic, but...
But you do not choose when, you do not choose where, you do not choose who triggers it.
This is why Marlowe is sitting at on the landing of one of the stairs on one of the floors, head against the wall and eye closed. One leg drawn up, the other foot resting on the second stair down; he could just be thinking.
People's knuckles aren't normally so white when they do that, though.
Where would you prefer to collapse, your room or the road? For a stairway is really a road, and this one has heavy traffic, but...
But you do not choose when, you do not choose where, you do not choose who triggers it.
This is why Marlowe is sitting at on the landing of one of the stairs on one of the floors, head against the wall and eye closed. One leg drawn up, the other foot resting on the second stair down; he could just be thinking.
People's knuckles aren't normally so white when they do that, though.
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Date: 2007-12-25 08:52 am (UTC)Her voice trails off a second time and she bites her tongue, brow knitting in her focus and frustration.
AJ went back with only a note and maybe her death waiting on the other side of the door. Ramon went back to prison, too furious at her for any offer she might make to be taken seriously.
And now Kit.
She's tired of being left behind.
what I want from us, is empty our minds
but we fake, we fuss, and fracture the times
we go blind when we needed to see
and this leans on me, like a rootless...
"I could go with you."
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Date: 2007-12-25 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 09:01 am (UTC)"If you don't think I'd be in the way," she adds, after a pause.
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 09:09 am (UTC)Still, she has something of a knack at playing what she is not.
"Yes."
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 09:14 am (UTC)"Both, yes."
There are two knives on her right now, not to mention her (tattoo) sword.
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:17 am (UTC)"Would you care to take a trip to England in the interests of keeping me alive and unarrested?"
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:18 am (UTC)"I would take that trip, and gladly too."
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:21 am (UTC)He almost sounds cheerful.
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:22 am (UTC)"I don't think anyone does."
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:26 am (UTC)He thinks for a moment, and then glances back at her.
"Sooner rather than later suit you, my lady?"
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:28 am (UTC)"A few days advance warning--if you can manage it--to set some things in order is all I really need."
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Date: 2007-12-25 09:33 am (UTC)"I can do that. I need to remember what I was doing, and such things."
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:22 am (UTC)"Of course. And I'll get some clothes from Bar; she's handled clothes for a different time for me before."
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:23 am (UTC)"Your hair is well enough, I think...but we really do look nothing alike, do we?"
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:24 am (UTC)"I don't suppose we do."
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:27 am (UTC)"I have to make passports, else we'd be arrested."
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:28 am (UTC)She's still not quite sure where he's going with this.
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-26 06:37 am (UTC)A very long minute.
"I...I suppose I could remember to answer to Mary well enough. Elizabeth fits the time, but Mom only ever used that when I was in trouble."
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:40 am (UTC)He's waiting for the other shoe to drop, but gives little sign of it.
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:42 am (UTC)And here's the shoe.
"...how's this 'pretending to be married to you' thing going to work, exactly?"
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Date: 2007-12-26 06:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-26 07:19 am (UTC)But a lot of things sound easy.
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