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Terrence Ephemera / Sharkface ([personal profile] requiemshark) wrote in [community profile] meadowlarking 2020-01-06 12:04 am (UTC)

Rough way to grow up.

[ Rougher than Eremus, which at least made a decent attempt at pretending things hadn't gone completely to hell. There had been fake skies, plenty of sun lamps and vitamin D tabs to keep everyone alive. Sharkface nods slowly. ]

Wasn't like that for me. Other things threw me, but not that. We had enough light to make up the difference.

[ He considered lying, throwing that to her so they could commiserate together. It might have been a commonality, something shared, and from there something else might have been built. An alliance, maybe. Melisandre's smart, even if she's not from a place quite like this, and it's always good to have smart people on your side. But there's a part of him that's been enjoying the conversation for its own sake, even if a vague sense, and it feels wrong to lie about something like that right off the bat.

So he tells the truth, and waits to see what it gets him. ]


I was a dumb kid. Didn't know anything when I enlisted. But I learned quick.

[ You do that, when you go to war. ]

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