[Liem regards her contemplatively, watching Hayame tuck her Sunbeam back out of sight, and considers her assertion — that nothing more than a touch is required for Discord to be purified. That has not been his experience, but… perhaps that is simply because of the difference between them. He has never known Hayame to accept touch lightly, for companionship or pleasure. Perhaps if the act of touch itself, even one as mundane as a touch of hands, requires some amount of vulnerability, then that might be enough.
He, too, tends to avoid unnecessary contact with others — but there have been times when he's made exceptions to assuage his loneliness. Much, he expects, as some at the masquerade did as well. By comparison, a touch of his hand alone is a small thing.]
I have not found such a simple method to work efficiently, so it has been difficult to reduce my Discord significantly in… in the time others would wish to devote to it. Or that I would, for that matter.
[Surely nobody wants to sit with him for hours on end while his Discord slowly goes down from a chaste touching of fingers. But it is as he said before: neither does he wish to be known to others, of his faction or otherwise, in order to accomplish this thing.]
The last time I had it significantly reduced was with a person whom I was speaking with about my home.
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[Liem regards her contemplatively, watching Hayame tuck her Sunbeam back out of sight, and considers her assertion — that nothing more than a touch is required for Discord to be purified. That has not been his experience, but… perhaps that is simply because of the difference between them. He has never known Hayame to accept touch lightly, for companionship or pleasure. Perhaps if the act of touch itself, even one as mundane as a touch of hands, requires some amount of vulnerability, then that might be enough.
He, too, tends to avoid unnecessary contact with others — but there have been times when he's made exceptions to assuage his loneliness. Much, he expects, as some at the masquerade did as well. By comparison, a touch of his hand alone is a small thing.]
I have not found such a simple method to work efficiently, so it has been difficult to reduce my Discord significantly in… in the time others would wish to devote to it. Or that I would, for that matter.
[Surely nobody wants to sit with him for hours on end while his Discord slowly goes down from a chaste touching of fingers. But it is as he said before: neither does he wish to be known to others, of his faction or otherwise, in order to accomplish this thing.]
The last time I had it significantly reduced was with a person whom I was speaking with about my home.