I wasn't, I wasn't! I was going to use mine, so you could lie, actually, and pretend you'd used your own, so you'd still have it in those coat pockets of yours should trouble strike. To keep plans in a brocade bag, and all of that.
[ and boy if he is not someone who always has plans ] The one I was gifted is more than enough for me.
It's alright, I'm not stingy. Wrath I believe offered me a second in a stupor, but I didn't follow up. Felt a bit rude to take advantage of half-asleep girl. Maybe I'll press again later.
[Molly feels a bit better after the joking around, so he just, moves to slide a hand over gu yun's, squeezing.]
Who else is worth some time with? I'm rather fond of Greed and Lust. And Envy certainly seems to have a thing for me. I'll-- I'll warn you right off Gluttony. Strange, that one.
[ gu yun's still settling a bit into the easy affection that everyone here seems to indulge in, but coming from molly... there's a beat, but eventually, he curls his hand underneath his in response, picking his drink up with the other to finish it off. ]
Gluttony reminds me a bit of someone I know from home, in a few ways. I've enjoyed chatting with them, for the most part. [ there's just a lot going on there. even if they made gu yun think about his butler at home wearing thigh high boots, which, considering his butler is nearing eighty, was one of the funniest things that happened to him this week. ] It sounds like we've spoken mostly to the same Avatars.
Sloth is interesting. I'm going to try and speak with them a bit more this upcoming week. [ a beat. ] Don't think Despair likes me very much.
[ and of course, there's pride... which. after the whole conversation about the alarm today...lol... ]
I don't know that it exactly matters - perhaps they were just trying to get under my skin for their own amusement - but I get the impression they don't really have a concern for any lives here. Something or other about serving some other master, definite implication of eating souls, and they rudely got their bad energy all over my deck.
[He looks down at his glass. thinks of the Eye card, sitting on the table.]
[ hmmm. less the deck itself, but, the description... ]
...I'll keep it in mind. Suppose that would explain gluttony.
[ soul eating! hate it! maybe they vored kaz. who knows. ] It's not that we really know any of their motivations regarding us or this place, either, and I doubt that's going to come to light anytime soon.
Did you do that for any of the others? Read them, that is. [ curious... ]
Told me that my lies and dark shadow would one day consume me, or something! Pssh! What of it. Did get an interesting pair of boots out of it if you'd like to see them on me though.
[stop joking to escape the feelies,]
No. Not yet at any rate. Maybe only if they promise not to flip shit.
[ bleak. ] Suppose that would make two of us to that, though, so, at least we'll go down together. [ stop joking to escape the feelies... two!
anyway. ] You'd think being a hooded, faceless being to us would make them [ as a whole, anyway ] a bit less sensitive to the whims of fortune telling. [ but then again!! gu yun also hates fortune telling! so what does he know. ]
[Oh, there's a twitch in his expression and he reaches over to flick him in the forehead at the Moonweaver comment. Not hard, just an admonishment. Some loyalties do lay beneath it seems.]
Ah-- Harrow. I was told I could either sleep properly or lie down and die, which I believe was meant as encouragement. And I'm not . . . exactly avoiding it, as much as when I just lay there, thinking of nothing, I start thinking of things I don't particularly want to dwell on. It isn't my favorite.
That does sound like Harrow. She told me something rather similar earlier this week. [ "if you're in pain, stop being an infant and own up to it". bless her heart.
there's a quiet, thoughtful moment as molly finishes, though. it's not an unfamiliar feeling, lying in bed awake at night. ] ...I suppose the true solution, then, is not giving yourself time to think, between wakefulness and sleep. The sort where you blink, and then it's morning. [ drinking. nearly dying in a battle. simply staying up until you can't anymore. things like that. ] There are healthy ways and unhealthy ways.
[ there's a beat; molly's hand is still over his, and gu yun shifts, lifting his wrist to turn his hand over, palm up, under molly's. ]
Does company help? [ ...it could be something like being kept up talking to someone, too. ]
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[Says Mollymauk, noted terrible liar? It's fine.]
And how did the clever Gu Yun obtain a second?
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[ that's
not what it's called. ]
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A favorite of the Avatars?
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Maybe one or two, though I'm not the only one - a few others came up in the trial today. [ 🎶 ] A gentleman would never kiss and tell, though.
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[Reaching over to poke him in that mark on his cheek.]
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It has someone feel like they've been shot, despite not leaving a mark. It wouldn't kill someone, but it would incapacitate them instantly.
Something to protect myself, should I need it.
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[He doesn't seem to mind.]
Anyway, interesting. Definitely, the kind of thing that could be useful.
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I wasn't, I wasn't! I was going to use mine, so you could lie, actually, and pretend you'd used your own, so you'd still have it in those coat pockets of yours should trouble strike. To keep plans in a brocade bag, and all of that.
[ and boy if he is not someone who always has plans ] The one I was gifted is more than enough for me.
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It's alright, I'm not stingy. Wrath I believe offered me a second in a stupor, but I didn't follow up. Felt a bit rude to take advantage of half-asleep girl. Maybe I'll press again later.
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I'm sure she would give it to you.
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Who else is worth some time with? I'm rather fond of Greed and Lust. And Envy certainly seems to have a thing for me. I'll-- I'll warn you right off Gluttony. Strange, that one.
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Gluttony reminds me a bit of someone I know from home, in a few ways. I've enjoyed chatting with them, for the most part. [ there's just a lot going on there. even if they made gu yun think about his butler at home wearing thigh high boots, which, considering his butler is nearing eighty, was one of the funniest things that happened to him this week. ] It sounds like we've spoken mostly to the same Avatars.
Sloth is interesting. I'm going to try and speak with them a bit more this upcoming week. [ a beat. ] Don't think Despair likes me very much.
[ and of course, there's pride... which. after the whole conversation about the alarm today...lol... ]
Wrath is my favorite of them all, though. [ yea ]
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I am being a little serious about being careful around Gluttony.
[He finishes his drink quickly, then taps his nails on the glass, thinking it over.]
They asked me to give them a reading. It went a bit sour.
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How so? [ bad. ]
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[He looks down at his glass. thinks of the Eye card, sitting on the table.]
A serpent, that one.
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...I'll keep it in mind. Suppose that would explain gluttony.
[ soul eating! hate it! maybe they vored kaz. who knows. ] It's not that we really know any of their motivations regarding us or this place, either, and I doubt that's going to come to light anytime soon.
Did you do that for any of the others? Read them, that is. [ curious... ]
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[stop joking to escape the feelies,]
No. Not yet at any rate. Maybe only if they promise not to flip shit.
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[ bleak. ] Suppose that would make two of us to that, though, so, at least we'll go down together. [ stop joking to escape the feelies... two!
anyway. ] You'd think being a hooded, faceless being to us would make them [ as a whole, anyway ] a bit less sensitive to the whims of fortune telling. [ but then again!! gu yun also hates fortune telling! so what does he know. ]
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[Then he laughs.]
Anyway, I've been threatened with going to speak to one of them about sleeping properly. So Sloth is likely the choice there.
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anyway, ] Ah - though, so you should. Who's threatening you into sleep? Seems like a wise person.
[ says gu yun who doesn't sleep much either. ] Is there anything that helps, particularly, or are you trying to avoid it on purpose?
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Ah-- Harrow. I was told I could either sleep properly or lie down and die, which I believe was meant as encouragement. And I'm not . . . exactly avoiding it, as much as when I just lay there, thinking of nothing, I start thinking of things I don't particularly want to dwell on. It isn't my favorite.
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That does sound like Harrow. She told me something rather similar earlier this week. [ "if you're in pain, stop being an infant and own up to it". bless her heart.
there's a quiet, thoughtful moment as molly finishes, though. it's not an unfamiliar feeling, lying in bed awake at night. ] ...I suppose the true solution, then, is not giving yourself time to think, between wakefulness and sleep. The sort where you blink, and then it's morning. [ drinking. nearly dying in a battle. simply staying up until you can't anymore. things like that. ] There are healthy ways and unhealthy ways.
[ there's a beat; molly's hand is still over his, and gu yun shifts, lifting his wrist to turn his hand over, palm up, under molly's. ]
Does company help? [ ...it could be something like being kept up talking to someone, too. ]
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He laces his fingers with gu yun's, the red eye on the back of his hand shifting with the skin.]
Company helps.
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[ so...
if company helps, then he'll provide it. a part of him is embarrassed; the tips of his ears are red.
but he squeezes his hand. ]