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retroductions) wrote2022-07-19 08:19 pm
retroductions) wrote2022-07-19 08:19 pm
reverie overflow.
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some threads may be nsfw!!
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some threads may be nsfw!!
She does try very hard to be kind and polite, except when she is throwing a man into the sand. Still, I believe once she understands that Mr Conductor is a good friend and stalwart companion, there will be nothing to fear.
Yes. So I.... shouldn't. It would never be fair to you, or him.
. . .
Did she throw you into the sand, Mr Sholmes?
Did she throw you into the sand, Mr Sholmes?
I don’t think that’s necessarily true, either. If either party is fine with it…
[He trails off. Knowing this, he should fetch his other strings, too — not to make a point, but so that she is aware.]
I have another red string, too, my dear. [He holds it up, gently between two fingers. It’s twined with gold and yellow, much like hers.] Mr Inui and I have agreed upon it together, yet not exclusively with each other. I have seen other romantic inclinations in his strings, too.
[He doesn’t know if this helps, or hinders, or something in-between, but Sholmes certainly wishes to be transparent as possible.]
[He trails off. Knowing this, he should fetch his other strings, too — not to make a point, but so that she is aware.]
I have another red string, too, my dear. [He holds it up, gently between two fingers. It’s twined with gold and yellow, much like hers.] Mr Inui and I have agreed upon it together, yet not exclusively with each other. I have seen other romantic inclinations in his strings, too.
[He doesn’t know if this helps, or hinders, or something in-between, but Sholmes certainly wishes to be transparent as possible.]
Yes! Very hard! I am sure she left a Sholmes-shaped-impression behind!
…Though to be fair, I was trying to kidnap her.
…Though to be fair, I was trying to kidnap her.
[Marianne watches closely, trying and mostly failing to see if there's a trick to the movement of his fingers that she's missing. She's paying such close attention that the question catches her entirely off-guard.]
O-oh, it's um. Nothing.
[She says, as he face turns the color of the darkest of the pink strings.]
O-oh, it's um. Nothing.
[She says, as he face turns the color of the darkest of the pink strings.]
Absolutely, scarred as it is - I prefer my own, and it'd be wrong to keep someone else's body.
Oh.
[ naturally, right away, there's that pang of jealousy or disappointment. the reason she should not be entertaining what she so badly wants to entertain. she furrows her brows slightly, watching Sholmes' red string shift in the artificial diner light.
does this make her "the other woman"?
again?
again...? ]
What is it about this place...
[ naturally, right away, there's that pang of jealousy or disappointment. the reason she should not be entertaining what she so badly wants to entertain. she furrows her brows slightly, watching Sholmes' red string shift in the artificial diner light.
does this make her "the other woman"?
again?
again...? ]
What is it about this place...
[Eyes flicking up to catch the reddening of her face.]
Come now, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. Tell me, who has caught your eye!
[Yeah, he's nosy.]
Come now, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. Tell me, who has caught your eye!
[Yeah, he's nosy.]
Indeed. Like driving about in the wrong automobile, hm? Or in your case, steering the wrong ship about.
[Threads!]
Oh, yes, it's inconvenient in its own way... I've tried to light my pipe, but I cannot do so without fear of cathing my strings aflame.
Oh, yes, it's inconvenient in its own way... I've tried to light my pipe, but I cannot do so without fear of cathing my strings aflame.
[Tries to read the expression on her face, to see what he can garner from it. "Oh" does not tell him much.]
Hm? What do you mean?
Hm? What do you mean?
[ her expression is pinched, a little maudlin, a little self-pitying. it's the expression of someone who feels abruptly let down, that's right—or something close to feeling let down. ]
Higher society is all complicated webs, but... this place puts even it to shame. Everyone so entangled with one another.
Higher society is all complicated webs, but... this place puts even it to shame. Everyone so entangled with one another.
[why are you giving him ideas]
I did not want to risk it, so I'm not entirely certain.
But now I wonder.
I did not want to risk it, so I'm not entirely certain.
But now I wonder.
[He laughs.]
Perhaps only for a few seconds! I explained it to her after the fact, of course.
Perhaps only for a few seconds! I explained it to her after the fact, of course.
[In that case, her expression is very telling.]
Are you disappointed? No matter how tangled the web gets, more and more with each passing day, this does not change how I feel about you.
Are you disappointed? No matter how tangled the web gets, more and more with each passing day, this does not change how I feel about you.
[ can't even meet his eye. ]
I told you I'm selfish, Herlock. I can't stand to be "other woman".
I told you I'm selfish, Herlock. I can't stand to be "other woman".
[Here, he frowns.]
Why do you think that label would be the first thing to apply? "Other". As though you would not be not held in equal regard.
Why do you think that label would be the first thing to apply? "Other". As though you would not be not held in equal regard.
But I am... almost certain.
[Plainly.]
It must be, even if it is a particularly... Ah. Love-hate relationship?
[Plainly.]
It must be, even if it is a particularly... Ah. Love-hate relationship?
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