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Post by Der Tod on Dec 7, 2010 16:32:47 GMT -5
"I'm sure there are many who will be concerned for you there."
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Post by Sophie on Dec 7, 2010 18:25:15 GMT -5
"No," she said softly. "There's no one."
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Post by Der Tod on Dec 8, 2010 1:11:07 GMT -5
Touto leaned forward, a bit fascinated despite zirself.
"You risk your life to save a world in which you are alone?" zie said softly. "Friendless?"
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Post by Sophie on Dec 8, 2010 1:17:40 GMT -5
She laughed a bit hollowly.
"Well...I have a friend, but I don't see her often...and mother is dead, my father..."
She shook her head.
"I never knew him."
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Post by Der Tod on Dec 8, 2010 1:21:46 GMT -5
Touto paused, and smoothed the girl's mask as though to comfort her.
The carriage headed downwards, although no real shift in motion was perceptible inside it.
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Post by Sophie on Dec 8, 2010 1:29:49 GMT -5
She heaved a sigh at the gesture, even if it as over the mask.
When was the last time anybody had tried to be comforting to her?
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Post by Der Tod on Dec 8, 2010 10:51:38 GMT -5
She had to be taken to the hospital; if there was no one to see to her at the Petit Trianon she might not make it there.
Yet if Sophie's identity were to be lost at such an early stage in her career, it would make her much less interesting, and Touto much less gracious. The carriage turned down an empty street, full of mist, and slowly halted. Touto leaned back and steepled zir hands.
"Can you move?"
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Post by Sophie on Dec 8, 2010 13:28:42 GMT -5
Sophie blinked. The situation was so dreamlike that she was never entirely sure just what she was imagining and what she wasn't. When she glanced out the window, she the street beyond.
"I...think so." She said uncertainly.
The truth was, she hadn't even thought of her injuries for a while now. Did it hurt? Sort of...
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Post by Der Tod on Dec 8, 2010 17:22:04 GMT -5
Touto leaned forward, holding a folded dress out to her as though it had just been in a box under the seat.
"You don't want to be caught in that, do you?"
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Post by Sophie on Dec 8, 2010 18:30:52 GMT -5
Oh, damn, she was still in her costume. Feeling rather sheepish, she nodded, taking the offered dress.
"Thank you...you just saved me a lot of trouble."
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