Gladly. [because there are reasons yet to be glad; because in casimir's case he clings to hope and what should be with all ten fingers.
the question's cause for hesitation, then a spilling list like a child's catalogue of his day:] A rift. Demons and a dying abbey; the wreckage of women once kind and brave. The ocean and fog in the harbor and the Gallows at last.
It's the strangest thing--to not know anyone's faces. To've been greeted by total strangers on coming home, knowing they were people I'd lived among for months but not knowing who they were. [it makes him wonder: how will it be to be freed from the brand in like conditions--to be surrounded by those known only through one set of perceptions and look at them with another.
or to recognize all at once how old friends had changed in a way once imperceptible.] It makes the ones I recognize the more precious.
[breath in, breath out.] What else would you hear? My time's yours, [for as long as you like it, he does not say, knowing it doesn't apply. not like that.]
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the question's cause for hesitation, then a spilling list like a child's catalogue of his day:] A rift. Demons and a dying abbey; the wreckage of women once kind and brave. The ocean and fog in the harbor and the Gallows at last.
It's the strangest thing--to not know anyone's faces. To've been greeted by total strangers on coming home, knowing they were people I'd lived among for months but not knowing who they were. [it makes him wonder: how will it be to be freed from the brand in like conditions--to be surrounded by those known only through one set of perceptions and look at them with another.
or to recognize all at once how old friends had changed in a way once imperceptible.] It makes the ones I recognize the more precious.
[breath in, breath out.] What else would you hear? My time's yours, [for as long as you like it, he does not say, knowing it doesn't apply. not like that.]