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feral housewife ([personal profile] sluice) wrote in [community profile] crescentview 2023-02-07 06:08 am (UTC)

That's what you're into?

[ Don't flip up his skirt, He Xuan.

Petulant, Tartaglia keeps staring out where the sky touches the sea, all of these clouds hanging so low like his mood, abstract in form and guttering around. Confronting the matter takes so much out of him, completely spoiling the silence. If he incurs He Xuan's wrath again, to hell with it. He'll just fling himself off the boat and swim away. Anywhere's better than dealing with that rancor again, choosing willing self-endangerment over frustration that could go on forever.

... As if. That isn't true, either. Subjecting himself to that gaze he's steeped in, Tartaglia's harboring this disgustingly human look, like he's already been dragged out to sea. ]


Did you want a target on your back that badly? [ What kind of appeal was that? ] What I said was unreasonable, but I wasn't lying to you that day. Telling me the truth only when it was convenient... what did you take me for? I had to force your hand.

[ In his lap, Tartaglia's hands are drawn so tightly together that his knuckles have gone bloodless. ]

I also know it didn't cross your mind. I never even asked. That's why...

[ Isn't it obvious? ]

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten angry with you.

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