[ Alec huffs, and he doesn't try to be quiet about it. It's an ambiguous sort of huff, just air expelled through the nose for the sake of doing it. ]
Yeah. Protecting my precious reputation, and all that.
[ Telling her he doesn't care about any of that is clearly not doing the trick. He's starting to get a better impression of what her problem is, though. All this preoccupation with other people, what they think, what they might find out, plus that damp drape of guilt still clinging to her when they've already worked everything out?
He goes quiet to do an exaggerated look around for potential listening ears before he looks back at her and rolls his eyes. She's taking this about seven degrees too seriously. ]
People are going to find out about my power. I just don't want the first they hear about it to be this. [ He'll give that a second to sink in, hopefully. ] I was talking about what you said, dweeb. Did they scoop out the self-preservation part of your brain while they were in there?
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Yeah. Protecting my precious reputation, and all that.
[ Telling her he doesn't care about any of that is clearly not doing the trick. He's starting to get a better impression of what her problem is, though. All this preoccupation with other people, what they think, what they might find out, plus that damp drape of guilt still clinging to her when they've already worked everything out?
He goes quiet to do an exaggerated look around for potential listening ears before he looks back at her and rolls his eyes. She's taking this about seven degrees too seriously. ]
People are going to find out about my power. I just don't want the first they hear about it to be this. [ He'll give that a second to sink in, hopefully. ] I was talking about what you said, dweeb. Did they scoop out the self-preservation part of your brain while they were in there?