[Wearing something else has literally never occurred to her. As well-adjusted and capable as she is, she nonetheless possesses faults, flaws, and oversights in her mentation as anyone else would. Most of them relate to how very, very long certain things have been just that way for her.]
[To answer his question, Venat shares a conspiratorial smile.]
I take joy in helping others, too.
[That ought to explain it, yes? Her role is less formal and less defined than his, but it still can set her apart. She is still an advisor, a source of strength, a mentor, or in a strange case or two a mother figure. A certain sort of distance, certain sorts of lines, exist in that role to maintain it. His contract specifies what remains implicit for her, but still.]
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Date: 2024-06-11 08:33 pm (UTC)[To answer his question, Venat shares a conspiratorial smile.]
I take joy in helping others, too.
[That ought to explain it, yes? Her role is less formal and less defined than his, but it still can set her apart. She is still an advisor, a source of strength, a mentor, or in a strange case or two a mother figure. A certain sort of distance, certain sorts of lines, exist in that role to maintain it. His contract specifies what remains implicit for her, but still.]