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Post by Erik on Oct 7, 2008 9:43:51 GMT -5
Was she willfully obtuse, or just obtuse?
"Sunbathe?" he repeated. "You think I should add sunburn to the rest of my offenses? What's there to do on the roof? Erik can be alone wherever he wants; what he cannot have, cannot be part of, is society. Is that so difficult to understand?"
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Post by The Girl on Oct 14, 2008 9:19:52 GMT -5
"Ah huh..." *she said noncommittally, setting her jaw to one side.*
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Post by Erik on Oct 14, 2008 9:59:08 GMT -5
Erik stared at her for a moment.
"Erik will never know what that man was thinking," he mused incredulously. "Did he think I would be so desperate as to fall upon anything he threw Erik's way?"
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Post by The Girl on Oct 14, 2008 10:58:03 GMT -5
"Probably. He did not pay enough to have seen to my comfort on the voyage here. I doubt he gave it much thought at all."
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Post by Erik on Oct 14, 2008 11:05:19 GMT -5
"Just 'any woman will do, as long as he stops coming over here,' I suppose was his thought," said Erik, conveniently forgetting his own tendency, at times, to indeed find any woman sufficient. As long as she was related to someone he loved or a mortal enemy. "Filthy country."
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Post by The Girl on Oct 14, 2008 11:10:46 GMT -5
"Indeed. France is cold and perverted."
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Post by Erik on Oct 14, 2008 11:14:39 GMT -5
Erik paused.
"Well. They all are. Filthy. But I was thinking about yours."
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Post by The Girl on Oct 14, 2008 11:16:43 GMT -5
"My country?" *she said.* "And which country would that be, monsieur?"
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Post by Erik on Oct 14, 2008 11:24:29 GMT -5
"Well, Persia, I assume."
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Post by The Girl on Oct 14, 2008 11:32:56 GMT -5
"As if those barbarians who made me what I am were my countrymen!" *she spat.*
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Post by Erik on Oct 14, 2008 11:44:29 GMT -5
"My countrymen have never had any special love for me," Erik growled. "Country means nothing--hatred does not respect borders. I suppose you have a country to thus idealize?"
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Post by The Girl on Oct 14, 2008 11:50:27 GMT -5
"...not that I can remember," *she said.* "I was taken as a child, and I had no one to speak to, and so I did not speak...if I had a mother tongue I cannot recall it, now."
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Post by Erik on Oct 14, 2008 12:16:32 GMT -5
Erik sighed in exasperation.
"Then you cannot be sure those 'barbarians' were not your own fathers and uncles and brothers!" he exclaimed. "The world hates you, as it hates all its creatures. Your misfortune, and Erik's, was to have some quality that was easily exploited."
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Post by The Girl on Oct 14, 2008 13:19:02 GMT -5
"What, being a CHILD?" *she said defensively, angry that he was spinning her history as it suited him to make her seem some incompetent evildoer who deserved her fate.*
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Post by Erik on Oct 14, 2008 14:16:14 GMT -5
"Being vulnerable," he said quietly.
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