grunehexe: (regrets)
Sieglinde Sullivan ([personal profile] grunehexe) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology 2016-06-30 03:52 am (UTC)

Well, now you know. If you plan to be serious about pursuing me, I will try and start seeing you in a more appropriate light.

[As it was, she was annoyingly unsure just how far he was joking about this. Annoyingly, because not only was she vaguely uncomfortable joking about such a topic, even if she tried to go along with the way he spoke, but because... It wasn't a joke to her. She took the matter of her future heir entirely too seriously, and while marriage had never been something she'd considered, a lot of people in this place seemed to value it, so she'd have to reconsider.

But she doesn't want to make this about that at all, because he's the one who's been avoiding her, sneaking in at night to pretend like such a thing counted as visiting when she wasn't even awake to know, as if the comfort of seeing another entry in that peculiar book of his was supposed to be comfort enough.

Her expression grew troubled, and even though she reached for something lighthearted sounding, since he seemed to want to discuss in that manner... She couldn't, and her gaze fell to her sheets.]


... I would not have asked you if I had known you would react this way, you know.

[Perhaps she shouldn't have. Perhaps she should have asked someone she didn't know, after all, and subjected herself to that rather than inflict such a thing on someone she had trusted.

Perhaps it had been selfish.]

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