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aimedforthemoon) wrote2008-12-11 09:25 am
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This is starting to be a habit. Not that Esfir minds - your homes are where you can relax, talk openly, not have to pretend.
Which is why when she leads Cal in and points to her bed (presently looking more like a sofa, with how she's arranged the pillows), she turns and locks the door.
Habit.
Which is why when she leads Cal in and points to her bed (presently looking more like a sofa, with how she's arranged the pillows), she turns and locks the door.
Habit.
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He doesn't mind. A person needs space, as well as time, to remember how to breathe.
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Aurebesh is a bitch of an alphabet to learn.
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He listens to Esfir turn pages, and a sudden old memory rises, from when he was little. He'd been in disgrace with his parents - or with Mother, which back then amounted to the same thing - and was old enough to have learned to keep out of their way, and young enough to still want protection. Grahame had allowed Cal to sit with him in his study, as long as he was quiet. He was (far quieter than a boy of eight should be capable of), and he sat and listened as his uncle turned pages and wrote things down.
(Was that after Cal had started a fight in school, over some of the other boys picking on a kid for using crutches? It must have been. Cal can't think of any other time, any other reason, Grahame would have let him into his study at that age.)
(He might, just might, be wrong about that.)
Cal had forgotten all about that. It's been so long, and his relationship with his uncle became so warped, that it's difficult and always surprising to remember that there was a time when he was small, and Uncle Grahame was just his uncle and nothing more.
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Well.
It was never her family that was messed up, and she does have to learn this alphabet.
Sometimes, she murmurs under her breath.
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For the time being, at least.
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"Yeah," he says.
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"I eat a lot nowdays. We'll manage. I'll be back."
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"Okay."
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Just until she gets back.
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Also two glasses for water - the water itself will just have to be from the bathroom.
"Cal?"
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"Uh. You need help with that?"
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"Da."
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"You. Eat something."
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It's truer than Esfir would probably be pleased with. On the other hand, the food is also a better idea than the whiskey was.
Also, Cal is already assembling a sandwich. He responds to that particular tone very quickly.
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"Your mother."
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". . . Except nicer," he offers.
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"I am not nice. Except to friends. And family. Then I am nice."
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