"I think he's used to doing what he likes," and isn't that the truth of it, and smile a little, dryly. "I think... there was also a time that wasn't so."
"Before he was as he is... think you've the right of it," I say, shaking my head a little, and thinking of old words and paper like weak tea. "At least tries for kindness sometimes, though, even when he's tangled in himself..." Smile faint and exasperated, thinking of my clothes. Burnt them, and them yet perfectly sound, the idiot.
And of Iago Kate says "I'm glad," and if there's some caution there I think she's yet speaking truth. "Marriage suits him."
"We're matched, in that regard," I say, and the dragonfly weight of the ring on my hand... faint bittersweet, now, in this strange mood I'm of, but always a surety at the heart of it, steady touchstone for what's meant. And a fine thing to sit here talking of such matters. "Tell me how things've been with you and Tess, though?" I add. Know the strangeness that can come of living with another, and as we're both here and those we keep house with aren't, 'd be a fool or worse to take this for time t'speak only of matters of mine.
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Date: 2010-09-28 05:01 pm (UTC)"Before he was as he is... think you've the right of it," I say, shaking my head a little, and thinking of old words and paper like weak tea. "At least tries for kindness sometimes, though, even when he's tangled in himself..." Smile faint and exasperated, thinking of my clothes. Burnt them, and them yet perfectly sound, the idiot.
And of Iago Kate says "I'm glad," and if there's some caution there I think she's yet speaking truth. "Marriage suits him."
"We're matched, in that regard," I say, and the dragonfly weight of the ring on my hand... faint bittersweet, now, in this strange mood I'm of, but always a surety at the heart of it, steady touchstone for what's meant. And a fine thing to sit here talking of such matters. "Tell me how things've been with you and Tess, though?" I add. Know the strangeness that can come of living with another, and as we're both here and those we keep house with aren't, 'd be a fool or worse to take this for time t'speak only of matters of mine.