I'd be hard-pressed to consider you anything else, given the kindness you're rendering me at present.
[Friends help friends move, real friends help move bodies, but it takes a very significant kind of friend to help bandage your coffee-burned lap area after a mishap of epic proportions.]
As for you...
[He, too, takes a minute, seeming to carefully choose the words he wants.]
I've witnessed firsthand the things hope is capable of, when wielded by someone willing to stake their all on it. Hope doesn't mean never doubting. It doesn't mean never faltering or even falling to one's knees. Hope is what gives one the strength to take one step more, and another beyond that, and beyond that.
I think you're a man who understands the importance of being a light of hope to the people around him, even when that light doesn't reach inward. Sometimes especially when it doesn't reach inward. What I don't think you always realize is that you would still be that beacon even without trying to make yourself so. 'Tis one of the many reasons I find you admirable.
[ THIS IS SO SWEET??? he looks visibly surprised, pausing in his work, and then very, very touched - flushing a little and letting out a half laugh, ducking his head. ]
...That's incredibly kind of you, Thancred.
[ hope, huh? it's a little ironic, in ways that thancred couldn't know, but... in a way, it's settling, too. that's what he's always tried to be, for the eighth. even when it was falling to pieces, he had to be their way forward and pick up all the parts. even when he was falling to pieces.
weh. he finishes the bandage he was working on, very carefully smoothing it in place, and then sits back on his heels, giving him a smile. ] Thank you. I think you're very admirable, too.
[The jokes about the fact that he is standing around in his smallclothes with bandaged thighs after hideous coffee burns that were apparently not as secret as he might otherwise have thought because SOMEONE went on a hella cursed booze cruise and blurted out all the sordid details in front of gods and everyone —
Well, they'll continue until further notice, is the thing. Anyway, he shifts around a little, testing the bandages, before finally nodding slowly.]
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I'd be hard-pressed to consider you anything else, given the kindness you're rendering me at present.
[Friends help friends move, real friends help move bodies, but it takes a very significant kind of friend to help bandage your coffee-burned lap area after a mishap of epic proportions.]
As for you...
[He, too, takes a minute, seeming to carefully choose the words he wants.]
I've witnessed firsthand the things hope is capable of, when wielded by someone willing to stake their all on it. Hope doesn't mean never doubting. It doesn't mean never faltering or even falling to one's knees. Hope is what gives one the strength to take one step more, and another beyond that, and beyond that.
I think you're a man who understands the importance of being a light of hope to the people around him, even when that light doesn't reach inward. Sometimes especially when it doesn't reach inward. What I don't think you always realize is that you would still be that beacon even without trying to make yourself so. 'Tis one of the many reasons I find you admirable.
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...That's incredibly kind of you, Thancred.
[ hope, huh? it's a little ironic, in ways that thancred couldn't know, but... in a way, it's settling, too. that's what he's always tried to be, for the eighth. even when it was falling to pieces, he had to be their way forward and pick up all the parts. even when he was falling to pieces.
weh. he finishes the bandage he was working on, very carefully smoothing it in place, and then sits back on his heels, giving him a smile. ] Thank you. I think you're very admirable, too.
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[The jokes about the fact that he is standing around in his smallclothes with bandaged thighs after hideous coffee burns that were apparently not as secret as he might otherwise have thought because SOMEONE went on a hella cursed booze cruise and blurted out all the sordid details in front of gods and everyone —
Well, they'll continue until further notice, is the thing. Anyway, he shifts around a little, testing the bandages, before finally nodding slowly.]
That's much better already. I'm in your debt.