A mask is a mask is a mask is a mask. So his is a smile! I've seen you do the same thing.
( Minutes earlier, though that's more like a tease; all the time as Terri, knowing that it wasn't something she'd thought was part of his nature, when he'd been using charm to get toward the information he wanted when they first planned to get into the UE. )
[ The claim she's seen him do 'the same thing', though, gets a snort. When? He has to think on it for a bit before shooting back with: ]
I was only joking around all those times, so they hardly count. If anything, mine is the opposite of a smile, but it actually serves a purpose. He's just being selfish with his.
( If she looks amused and like she doesn't believe him -- she doesn't. He used Terri, and he played her with a smile, but it does occur to her she's not supposed to know.
And that hadn't been teasing, but that, to... might even just be Collette wanting to believe none of it was real. If she thought it might be, it hurt in a way she had only inflicted on herself.
Ugh. She rubs her arm, snorting. )
'Cause he's related to you! How many times do I need to tell you I want to know before you really get it, smarty pants?
( She leans forward to lightly slap at his knee. )
And I'll keep pestering 'cause it is! What's his name? Then you can nap, though you should figure out where we're going tonight sometime before it actually becomes tonight.
( She remembers that name from way back, and the elemental association, part of a different conversation once upon a time. Ha! So that is what that'd been! Or more, so that was who he'd been working with. For some reason, she'd assumed Hugo was older than either of them; that realization has her laughing now. )
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( Minutes earlier, though that's more like a tease; all the time as Terri, knowing that it wasn't something she'd thought was part of his nature, when he'd been using charm to get toward the information he wanted when they first planned to get into the UE. )
Does that kid have a name?
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[ The claim she's seen him do 'the same thing', though, gets a snort. When? He has to think on it for a bit before shooting back with: ]
I was only joking around all those times, so they hardly count. If anything, mine is the opposite of a smile, but it actually serves a purpose. He's just being selfish with his.
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( If she looks amused and like she doesn't believe him -- she doesn't. He used Terri, and he played her with a smile, but it does occur to her she's not supposed to know.
And that hadn't been teasing, but that, to... might even just be Collette wanting to believe none of it was real. If she thought it might be, it hurt in a way she had only inflicted on herself.
Ugh. She rubs her arm, snorting. )
'Cause he's related to you! How many times do I need to tell you I want to know before you really get it, smarty pants?
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[ The usual complaint when personal things come up, not that this would fall into anything too personal. It was just business! ]
In any case, I duly warned, so do I get to sleep now?
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And I'll keep pestering 'cause it is! What's his name? Then you can nap, though you should figure out where we're going tonight sometime before it actually becomes tonight.
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( She remembers that name from way back, and the elemental association, part of a different conversation once upon a time. Ha! So that is what that'd been! Or more, so that was who he'd been working with. For some reason, she'd assumed Hugo was older than either of them; that realization has her laughing now. )
Yeah, yeah, quite a few, I know my fair share!
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[ So he had mentioned him before! ]
And good. Then I've decided where we're going.
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( Perky. Curious. Tugging on your knee. )
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( she asks rhetorically, because come on! SIGHS!
... heh.
goes to see if she can find that piece of pink ribbon she stashed away from like, Nym, to tie in a pretty bow in Caesar's hair... )