Yes, it was on a... visit there that he spoke of you.
[But it'd been after such a sore subject. "A man fancying men in a world not terribly friendly to that sort of thing," he'd said. It wouldn't be in good taste to bring such a thing to the surface, and... well, redundant, given that it's quite obvious now. So he says the half of it, plucking one of the last stems from his pants within his reach.]
He told me that you're sweet, and a good heart. I'm far more scandalized than I'd imagined, but disappointed? Far from it. I've encountered a butterfly expecting a caterpillar.
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[But it'd been after such a sore subject. "A man fancying men in a world not terribly friendly to that sort of thing," he'd said. It wouldn't be in good taste to bring such a thing to the surface, and... well, redundant, given that it's quite obvious now. So he says the half of it, plucking one of the last stems from his pants within his reach.]
He told me that you're sweet, and a good heart. I'm far more scandalized than I'd imagined, but disappointed? Far from it. I've encountered a butterfly expecting a caterpillar.