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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:20:58 GMT -5
"Well, for what it's worth, I feel you have a rather outsize personality."
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:25:57 GMT -5
"Outsize? Is that something German?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:27:15 GMT -5
"No, why?"
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:27:19 GMT -5
"I've never heard it before."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:29:35 GMT -5
"You have an unusually concentrated amount of personality, then."
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:30:59 GMT -5
She looked blushy and pleased, but a little unsure of what to do with all of this praise.
"I'm good at faking, then."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:33:12 GMT -5
Adrian shrugged.
"Ditto."
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:33:28 GMT -5
"Well, yes," she said, smile widening awkwardly.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:35:38 GMT -5
"Do I meet your standards now, by the way?" he asked casually.
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:39:39 GMT -5
"My standards for...?"
He kept throwing her and leaping to another topic she didn't intuitively follow, and it made her feel idiotic.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 0:44:03 GMT -5
He pointed at his hair.
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 0:45:16 GMT -5
"I thought about that but it didn't occur to me to say anything," she said. She assumed somehow that them talking about it and his getting it cut were unrelated things; now she felt rather stupid for not realizing they probably weren't. "Anyway, it's... better, I suppose."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 3:42:31 GMT -5
"Well, that was the idea. I'd been faintly doubtful about it for some time, but your bluntness reassured me that it wasn't misplaced as self-criticism. You have to understand, I don't have much of an eye for these things on my own."
He sat up a little bit again and crossed his jostling leg over the other to steady it. Adrian's whole posture became a study in artful-looking relaxation- effortless at first glance, far less so if you really looked at him.
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Post by Teja on Nov 29, 2015 14:22:23 GMT -5
Teja picked up on his discomfort without thinking it was a grand Sherlock Holmes moment on her part and bit her lip.
"You don't have to humor me just because I'm here, you know. You can go if you like - really letting me stay here is kind enough -"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Nov 29, 2015 14:36:17 GMT -5
"I would have already left if I didn't want to be here."
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