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Post by Teja on Nov 28, 2015 23:26:10 GMT -5
"Well, I didn't get to know you through marketing either."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 28, 2015 23:29:22 GMT -5
"And it shows in your unusual honesty in addressing me," said Adrian, with a deferential incline of the head.
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Post by Teja on Nov 28, 2015 23:31:24 GMT -5
She laughed a little self-consciously. "Well, you're a bit of an asshole sorry," she said swiftly, "but you're a good host."
Her incline of her own head was obviously mimicry, but respectfully meant, though it made her feel silly the moment she realized she'd done it.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 28, 2015 23:35:47 GMT -5
He laughed.
"Guilty as charged is putting it lightly."
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Post by Teja on Nov 28, 2015 23:37:32 GMT -5
"You have good qualities! You're handsome," she said, like the beginning of a list, and then stalling as though there was nothing else to go on it.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 28, 2015 23:49:39 GMT -5
"And that's currently in no small part thanks to you," he said, gesturing at his hair, "and the rest I can attribute to my image team, I suppose."
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Post by Teja on Nov 28, 2015 23:51:03 GMT -5
She didn't want to bring genetics into it, so she could only nod. "Like so many white men, only standing on the backs of others for your heightened visibility. But at least you use your visiblity for good things... it doesn't cancel the one out, but I find I can talk to you without a measure of resentment."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 28, 2015 23:53:53 GMT -5
"I'll take that as a compliment," said Adrian, "though I don't know if I should."
He leaned back in his chair.
"You really would think some of that personality might have worked inward by now, but... well."
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Post by Teja on Nov 28, 2015 23:54:51 GMT -5
"What personality?" she asked, visibly confused, her eyebrows curving in distress.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 28, 2015 23:58:43 GMT -5
He waved his mechanical hand at himself.
"Adrian Veidt, Time's Man of the Year 1975. You know the one."
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:02:36 GMT -5
"Not really."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:03:36 GMT -5
Adrian started laughing properly.
"Bad example."
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:07:31 GMT -5
"I like your personality," she said, a note of stubbornness emerging delicately.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:13:34 GMT -5
"Such as it is," he said, still smiling. His teeth were astonishingly white for someone who went through half a pack a day, though the bottom teeth were a little crooked.
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:17:47 GMT -5
She hesitated, then supposed she'd told him enough other things for them to be there as a pair of people. "...To be honest, I don't feel that I have much of a personality, so... I find it easier to talk to you than a lot of other people."
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