[echoing again softly - something about the wording, again]
I’ve been given things before - beautiful things but... objects, material thing. Nothing that really mattered and usually only because they were no trouble to give.
[Gilder was different; Gilder saved to see him; to afford rates that were a drop in a bucket for his other guests. Saved to see him when he could have gone to any number of cheaper brothels and still had money to spare - and if it were expensive he wanted, there were plenty of places for that too. But Gilder had returned for him. Linneus was still picking over his feelings on that one. But it feels like he is just... talking, and he tries to redirect himself-]
So those... they were things I ruled out for myself, for sure. The better to ward off disappointment, perhaps, even though the Natha said I might have them here...
[he will not point out that that fork is probably never going to stand - but he will brace himself for the clatter]
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[echoing again softly - something about the wording, again]
I’ve been given things before - beautiful things but... objects, material thing. Nothing that really mattered and usually only because they were no trouble to give.
[Gilder was different; Gilder saved to see him; to afford rates that were a drop in a bucket for his other guests. Saved to see him when he could have gone to any number of cheaper brothels and still had money to spare - and if it were expensive he wanted, there were plenty of places for that too. But Gilder had returned for him. Linneus was still picking over his feelings on that one. But it feels like he is just... talking, and he tries to redirect himself-]
So those... they were things I ruled out for myself, for sure. The better to ward off disappointment, perhaps, even though the Natha said I might have them here...
[he will not point out that that fork is probably never going to stand - but he will brace himself for the clatter]
That's fair, I think.