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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 12:27:47 GMT -5
"You can move into a smaller house, but you can't move into a smaller ego, apparently," she said, referencing the tag sale he'd had and she'd been to, with a severe look that was clearly a repressed smile.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 12:37:25 GMT -5
"It seemed like a less obvious ploy than attempting to conceal that I'm aging at all," he said a little wearily while picking up a roll. "I judged poorly, that's all."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 12:37:53 GMT -5
"You, with poor judgment? I'm petrified for where the world is headed. At least you won't live forever."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 12:40:54 GMT -5
"Thank God," he said, lifting his cup in a toast.
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 12:42:37 GMT -5
"God has nothing to do with it," she said, lifting her own little mug. "Do you think you'll die of old age? You must think yourself impervious to disease - I'm sure you consciously try to remind yourself you aren't, but we both know you do. You have so many enemies... Once in your life you must have supposed you'd die young."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 12:49:02 GMT -5
"Supposed? Hoped."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 12:50:30 GMT -5
Her expression softened. "Was that why you became a masked adventurer?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 12:54:48 GMT -5
"No," he said swiftly, as though changing the subject. "That came later."
He finished a roll and then added, a little grimly, "And to be perfectly honest, I'm not entirely sure I can get seriously ill."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 12:58:41 GMT -5
"Don't tempt fate, you silly man, you would be the most miserable person alive both to become sick and to be shown up by an instrument of cosmic design."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 14:08:47 GMT -5
"I'd find it reassuring."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 14:12:37 GMT -5
"The presence of a cosmic design laughing at your hubris, or getting sick?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 14:24:08 GMT -5
"Knowing that I have enough standard human genetic material left to be susceptible to standard human ailments," Adrian said briskly. "It's somewhat disheartening to get to 47 and put together that one has never had so much as a sore throat that can't be chalked up to a physically induced inflammation."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 14:26:35 GMT -5
"Oh, that sounds truly terrible. I see why Loki likes you so much."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 14:48:28 GMT -5
"Well, he is unusually perceptive."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 14:50:03 GMT -5
"...I can't even tell if you're serious or not."
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