[... She cannot say that she is grateful. Not now, when she is thinking of so many other things beyond his face. But the lack of false smile, wink, or joke at least means that she doesn't begin the conversation with annoyance. At least, there is none of that in the heightened Communion that exists between them now, exposure from the Oracle layered with the connection that had already existed since he had cured her of her Blight.
What is there... is doubt. The words he say should be reassuring, she wants to believe them, but-]
Are you, Claude von Riegan?
[Something flickers in that Communion to tell just what it is she might be referring to- impressions of a certain heated argument he had intervened in without condemning either party. Nearly all of Meridian had been present in that forum... and she remembered intently who said nothing, who continued to converse with that bigot as if nothing were wrong, and who valued playing nice more than condemning that which was despicable.]
No matter what?
[If that demon came for her? If the rest of Meridian abandoned her?
The one eye remaining to her (the one eye now remaining to the one who had plucked the left one from her skull) glints in the dim light of bio-luminescent fungus, staring intently at the man across from her.]
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What is there... is doubt. The words he say should be reassuring, she wants to believe them, but-]
Are you, Claude von Riegan?
[Something flickers in that Communion to tell just what it is she might be referring to- impressions of a certain heated argument he had intervened in without condemning either party. Nearly all of Meridian had been present in that forum... and she remembered intently who said nothing, who continued to converse with that bigot as if nothing were wrong, and who valued playing nice more than condemning that which was despicable.]
No matter what?
[If that demon came for her? If the rest of Meridian abandoned her?
The one eye remaining to her (the one eye now remaining to the one who had plucked the left one from her skull) glints in the dim light of bio-luminescent fungus, staring intently at the man across from her.]