Well, you're blonde and your name is LeBlanc, so technically... ( the joke is weak, and she knows it. )
I'm not owed anything. ( this is a faintly uncomfortable conversation, and she doesn't know why. maybe it's that whole guilt over eating people thing. really gets a girl down. )
[ Much as she does not care to repeat herself- she finds the words on her tongue all the same. ]
You are owed courtesy, dignity, and consideration by being a living, decent person. You made a mistake, how terrible. How unbearable. It is not mine to forgive but were it so, I would- carrying it about like a stone on your neck does not absolve you. Moving forward and doing better does. And with what I know of you, of your Wolf, of what you have done in your world and what you have done here? You have been better. You have earned your right to that consideration.
( Sometimes Adelaide says things and it makes her chest feel too overcrowded. Not unwelcome, some anxious rabble, but something lighter, even as there is a weight to it. Or maybe significance is the better word? Who knows.
Ruby's breath is long and slow as she absorbs that, tries to capture it, hold onto it. She's aware that it'd mean a lot from anyone, but when things come from Adelaide it's different.
At some point that might be a problem. )
Don't go making me get all sentimental, Captain. I might swoon, or something.
So long as you swoon where you'll land somewhere safe.
[ That unyielding edge to her voice drops away- teasing and making light...she can allow Ruby that. It is a difficult thing to discuss, all the more so as Adelaide...doesn't have that much experience with it. But she tries for Red and it seems worthwhile. ]
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[ Nor outside of politics is she terribly interested in what may or may not be fair. ]
You are being given the courtesy and consideration you are owed, here if nowhere else.
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I'm not owed anything. ( this is a faintly uncomfortable conversation, and she doesn't know why. maybe it's that whole guilt over eating people thing. really gets a girl down. )
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[ Much as she does not care to repeat herself- she finds the words on her tongue all the same. ]
You are owed courtesy, dignity, and consideration by being a living, decent person. You made a mistake, how terrible. How unbearable. It is not mine to forgive but were it so, I would- carrying it about like a stone on your neck does not absolve you. Moving forward and doing better does. And with what I know of you, of your Wolf, of what you have done in your world and what you have done here? You have been better. You have earned your right to that consideration.
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Ruby's breath is long and slow as she absorbs that, tries to capture it, hold onto it. She's aware that it'd mean a lot from anyone, but when things come from Adelaide it's different.
At some point that might be a problem. )
Don't go making me get all sentimental, Captain. I might swoon, or something.
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[ That unyielding edge to her voice drops away- teasing and making light...she can allow Ruby that. It is a difficult thing to discuss, all the more so as Adelaide...doesn't have that much experience with it. But she tries for Red and it seems worthwhile. ]