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Harrowhark the Ninth ([personal profile] we_bring_hell) wrote2020-11-24 01:43 pm

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Nothing is wrong. Well, nothing new is wrong. It's just that sometimes you wake up and hate everything, starting with yourself and extending outward from there.


She has snarled at Gideon, banished Gideon to the distant past, and is now sulking about being abandoned by Gideon. She was trying to work on the Lyctoral theorems, but her bile got in the way, and now she's chewing on her interdimensional communication mechanism.

She is considering burning characters into her living bones while her cavalier is away and without a healer standing by, because she may be 90% of Gideon's self-control but Gideon is 70% of her self-preservation.

The Mountain Goats is blaring; Transcendental Youth.
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
“Oh, would you now?”

She doesn’t add “Miss Grumpy” to her question, but she thinks it.

Hmm. The prophecy, Gideon’s absence, the difficulty of her world, this work that must be done - any of these would put someone into a bad mood, but all together at once?

“When my sister gets pissed off and overwhelmed, she finds plenty of work that must be done, too. She’s a right horror, but I go to her study and bother her anyway. It takes her mind off of what’s bothering her to bicker with her little sister.”

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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
“And that’s all in the past, yes? The nice thing about the past is you can leave it behind if you want to.”
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
“Incomprehensible,” she repeats, pleased. “I like it. Gives me an air of mystery.”

She settles into a chair not too close to the desk, but not too far from it, either.

“What’s wrong, Reverend Daughter? Besides the usual everything.”
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
“I’ve had my moments,” she admits. “Not very often and not for a while, but I’ve had them.”
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ingress lets her, keeping a watchful eye on her from where she sits.

“I’d tell you I’d leave you be,” she says, her tone conversational, “but that would be a terrible lie, and I’m not a liar.”

She examines her fingernails. They’re short, somewhat jagged from accidental breaks, the cuticles rough.
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ingress nods. “I appreciate that. You don’t have to be my company. You can do your tasks, and I can be your company, silent and thick-skinned.”
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
“Put through what, exactly? Being there for a friend when she’s in a bad mood?”

She shakes her head. “Harrow, when you’re friends with someone, you’re friends with all of them, even the not so pleasant parts. I’m your friend, and I’m not putting myself through anything.”
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
“Yes. Every time, so far.”
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
“I wouldn’t be able to come as often,” she agrees. “Or stay as long.”
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can see that. If I had pressing matters beyond day to day, I would feel that way, even with time stopping."
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"No," she agrees. "But perhaps not today, at any rate?"
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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-25 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Except not having your Cavalier with you," she says, and she shifts forward to perch at the edge of her seat.

"Who, as I recall, you promised never to leave here without from now on."

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[personal profile] herald_ingress 2020-11-26 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
She smiles, answer ready to trip off her lips.

Only. It doesn't.

She doesn't have one. She sits up straighter, and the smile fades into a frown.

"I don't know, Harrow. I have- I have no idea."

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