[ Incurable nerd! Indoor kid! Has been cooped up in lecture halls and research labs and counseling offices for years!!! He doesn't mean to be so out of shape. It's very embarrassing.
The break is highly appreciated. Maruki sighs heavily with relief, stretches to crack his back.
It really is something to see. He has few kind thoughts to spare about Somnius as a place on most days – city boy to his bones – but, to Venat's point earlier, a perspective from on high does tend to change things.
He's still catching his breath as they take in the view. Still holding her hand, and he runs his thumb idly over her knuckles. ]
I could say the same about you, easily.
[ A beat. ]
I've thought a lot about the last story you told me. The true nature of your 'religious figurehead' and 'retirement' euphemisms.
[ Light and playful, with a small teasing smile directed at her when he says it, but what comes next is nothing but earnest. ]
It must have made it extraordinarily difficult for you to have people in your life who treated you as a whole person, rather than– you know, a deity.
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Date: 2024-06-11 06:38 pm (UTC)The break is highly appreciated. Maruki sighs heavily with relief, stretches to crack his back.
It really is something to see. He has few kind thoughts to spare about Somnius as a place on most days – city boy to his bones – but, to Venat's point earlier, a perspective from on high does tend to change things.
He's still catching his breath as they take in the view. Still holding her hand, and he runs his thumb idly over her knuckles. ]
I could say the same about you, easily.
[ A beat. ]
I've thought a lot about the last story you told me. The true nature of your 'religious figurehead' and 'retirement' euphemisms.
[ Light and playful, with a small teasing smile directed at her when he says it, but what comes next is nothing but earnest. ]
It must have made it extraordinarily difficult for you to have people in your life who treated you as a whole person, rather than– you know, a deity.