Your luck must've run out. [ he bites down on the 'mongrel' that threatens to slip out. old habit.
but he listens intently as she lays her pitch bare, legs crossed and head tipped to the side as if the act of hearing someone out caused him a great burden--and for anyone clown-related that might be looking at him, it shifts over time. one moment, listing and at repose, and the next sitting up stiller and straighter with a thunderous expression gathering on his face, brows drawn, eyes narrowed as this girl--this Ana suggests.
suggests.
the silence shivers for a long moment, and then Gilgamesh sighs. rubs his eyes with his fingers, letting his head drop back for a second exhausted time. ]
[ The silence drags, a heavy weight sitting between them both as she tells him of her discovery. There's so many things he could say or do right now, and she's not entirely sure which way he'll fall in this. Of all the things for him to say, though, she wasn't expecting that.
His words pull a clipped sound from her, a laugh but without the amusement, and she'll count herself... Lucky? Is that the right word here? That it sounds like he does believe her. ]
It was a one night stand too, just to make it worse. [ Because she read up about father dearest - of his family, his wife of many years - so her opinion of him is already incredibly sour. ]
Is it safe to assume you believe me, or do you want to see the book yourself?
[ Her words are the words of a stranger. She knows she doesn't hold much weight here. ]
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but he listens intently as she lays her pitch bare, legs crossed and head tipped to the side as if the act of hearing someone out caused him a great burden--and for anyone clown-related that might be looking at him, it shifts over time. one moment, listing and at repose, and the next sitting up stiller and straighter with a thunderous expression gathering on his face, brows drawn, eyes narrowed as this girl--this Ana suggests.
suggests.
the silence shivers for a long moment, and then Gilgamesh sighs. rubs his eyes with his fingers, letting his head drop back for a second exhausted time. ]
That goddamned whore.
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His words pull a clipped sound from her, a laugh but without the amusement, and she'll count herself... Lucky? Is that the right word here? That it sounds like he does believe her. ]
It was a one night stand too, just to make it worse. [ Because she read up about father dearest - of his family, his wife of many years - so her opinion of him is already incredibly sour. ]
Is it safe to assume you believe me, or do you want to see the book yourself?
[ Her words are the words of a stranger. She knows she doesn't hold much weight here. ]