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Post by Teja on Oct 15, 2016 20:54:06 GMT -5
"Do you love me?" she demanded in return. "Or are you just bored with being old and isolated? Is that it? Like a cat playing with its food and not even interested enough to finish the job? The idea that you've thrown me into as much upheaval as you have - threatening a relationship that's stable at least some of the time and worrying everyone I know - because you had nothing better to do really pisses me off-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Oct 17, 2016 18:26:18 GMT -5
"Your terror is plain. One would think you might find it a relief that I no longer wish to inflict it upon you," he said as he slipped the keys back into his jacket.
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Post by Teja on Oct 17, 2016 18:28:29 GMT -5
"That doesn't answer my question."
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Oct 17, 2016 18:42:01 GMT -5
"I have not grown weary of you," he said stiffly.
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Post by Teja on Oct 17, 2016 18:44:55 GMT -5
"Then why are you ordering me out-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Oct 17, 2016 18:55:08 GMT -5
"I wish to avoid causing you any further harm," he said, finally turning to face her. "Or is that objectionable to you as well?"
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Post by Teja on Oct 17, 2016 18:59:04 GMT -5
"Are you planning on harming me?"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Oct 17, 2016 19:01:11 GMT -5
"No," he said, coming closer toward her. "I believe I have succeeded in turning all of those urges... inward."
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Post by Teja on Oct 17, 2016 19:02:52 GMT -5
"Well, I don't want that either."
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Oct 17, 2016 19:05:22 GMT -5
"I have no great need to remain in this new world of yours," Johannes sighed. "My son has taken his leave of me, as perhaps I might have foreseen had I only looked closer. Without him, without my Sarah, what else remains to justify this failed experiment?"
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Post by Teja on Oct 17, 2016 19:07:29 GMT -5
She lifted her eyebrows in a manner both skeptical and somewhat sad.
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Oct 17, 2016 19:18:01 GMT -5
"I have fallen quite below my dignity," he said, gesturing bleakly at the surrounding mess.
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Post by Teja on Oct 17, 2016 19:20:27 GMT -5
"If you want, I can clean this up for you. You'll feel better afterward."
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Oct 17, 2016 19:23:57 GMT -5
"I very greatly doubt that."
His clothes were dusty in the artificial light.
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Post by Teja on Oct 17, 2016 19:26:50 GMT -5
She started so say some other kind, coaxing thing, but stopped before she had even begun.
"...If you can't think of any reason to stay, there's nothing I can say that will change your mind."
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