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mattersverymuch) wrote2013-08-20 05:30 pm
mattersverymuch) wrote2013-08-20 05:30 pm
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[It's been so many years since the marquis was young that he'd almost forgotten what it was like. He had been so small, ill-fed and underweight, and so easily broken. Which, really, explains a lot about what he's become - none of which he particularly wanted explained to the Barge as a whole.]
[To distract himself somewhat from this unfortunate reality, he has begun work on a compendium of stories, as he has nothing else to do with his time. Much of his work is done in the library, but much is also done in the CES, which becomes, variously, an abandoned city in a mishmash of styles, a thick, temperate, and foggy hardwood forest, and a riverside. He works mostly from memory and attempts comprehensiveness, though his writings as late veer toward tales of the trickster.]
[To distract himself somewhat from this unfortunate reality, he has begun work on a compendium of stories, as he has nothing else to do with his time. Much of his work is done in the library, but much is also done in the CES, which becomes, variously, an abandoned city in a mishmash of styles, a thick, temperate, and foggy hardwood forest, and a riverside. He works mostly from memory and attempts comprehensiveness, though his writings as late veer toward tales of the trickster.]
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Oh, I expect it's doing quantum physics in that pointy little 'ead. Sophisticated beast like this one, trapped a long way from 'ome, needs a challenge to keep it going, eh?
[Clearly, we are discussing the shark. It's not possible that we might mean anyone else.]
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Mm, I don't know. Quantum physics is a little predictable as a challenge, isn't it? [He quirks his eyebrows. It's a barb, but a decently friendly one, and he doesn't acually expect it to sting.]
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[That makes her grin broadly, but his crack about physics makes her chortle, loudly enough to startle the shark.]
...oh, you beautiful creature. It is. Aye. That's why we set ourselves better ones, isn't it? Any news on that front, at all?
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Beautiful as I am, I don't think I should make myself any more predictable than I apparently already am. If it's all the same to you.
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Of course, she hasn't really considered anyone else that might be listening, because whatever Iris' middle name is (she has claimed many, over the years) it's certainly not cautious.
She inclines her head again, conceding.]
I meant the shark.
[A transparent lie, transparently offered.]
...We missed each other, that flood. I'm pretty sure I'm glad about that.
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[Transparent lack of acceptance. So transparent, all of them.]
And why, precisely, are you glad?
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We both of us need our smoke and mirrors, lovey. I don't think we'd either of us be better off seein' be'ind them particular curtains. Do you?
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[Not quite true - but there is something about Iris's particular brand of mystery that the marquis is content not untangling completely. Some things can remain secret.]