neuvillette turns, dropping the foreign object back in the basket. there is poise in the way he holds himself, an almost inhuman grace, and yet there is tension present as well. for all that he deals with strangers on a daily basis, presiding over and witnessing the darkest parts of their history he never wished to know, there has always been a distance between him and them. between his high seat and their pleadings on the opera house floor.
here, there is none of that. it all feels far too personal.
and yet this is the new role he has been assigned, one he must learn to play as well. the frown on his face cannot be missed, and yet it is colored more by irritation than true anger. )
Ideally, they would have brought us all here with far more warning and consent.
( surely this breaks some sort of international law somewhere? perhaps there is a library present somewhere, with law texts he can peruse. )
My apologies. I did not mean to disrupt your sleep.
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neuvillette turns, dropping the foreign object back in the basket. there is poise in the way he holds himself, an almost inhuman grace, and yet there is tension present as well. for all that he deals with strangers on a daily basis, presiding over and witnessing the darkest parts of their history he never wished to know, there has always been a distance between him and them. between his high seat and their pleadings on the opera house floor.
here, there is none of that. it all feels far too personal.
and yet this is the new role he has been assigned, one he must learn to play as well. the frown on his face cannot be missed, and yet it is colored more by irritation than true anger. )
Ideally, they would have brought us all here with far more warning and consent.
( surely this breaks some sort of international law somewhere? perhaps there is a library present somewhere, with law texts he can peruse. )
My apologies. I did not mean to disrupt your sleep.