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Alain Ebon ([personal profile] dovahfahdon) wrote in [community profile] abstracts2013-08-28 03:43 pm
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more ways to break.

[ Two men settle around a table, low and wooden, rough along the edges. Alain Ebon has made it months ago, but the other man across from him likely doesn't know that.

There's a beat, a moment. Alain thinks to offer. ]


Is there anything you'd like to eat?
putrefaction: (downcast to disheartened)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-28 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[It isn't the setting that unnerves him. The antiquated, rustic look has a charm Nigel can appreciate, and simplicity is easier on his damaged eye than elegance.

It is the man seated across the way. He does not come as simple.

Yet Nigel somehow remains impassive, despite the fire along his nerves.]


No, I'm fine. Thank you.
putrefaction: (providential living)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-28 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Any other, Nigel might have laughed along. He might have thrown himself fully into this scenario to see where it went.

Here:]


Some might disagree with your assessment.

[But he is attempting to be polite. Detached.]
putrefaction: (a fraction in splinters)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[...If his heart skipped several beats and died in a tragic crash at the touch, Nigel does not show it. Instead, he slips his wide eyes to rest on the wooden table.]

Society's loss, I suppose.

[--is the murmur.]
putrefaction: (intent and the consequences)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-28 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, okay. No contact is good. Nigel exhales slowly.]

Funny how that works. Is this something...your companion would agree with?

[That stalker dragon Nigel still cannot form opinions on.]
putrefaction: (end point)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-28 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Of those words, Nigel understands two, for the dragon has used them once in his presence. The rest he can get the gist.

Thus, pain flashes momentarily behind his eyes before it fades to calm.]


...That is good.
putrefaction: (to revel freely)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
["You and yours?" Nigel could fall to sardonics and ask exactly who counts as his.

He chuckles uneasily instead.]


I wouldn't say we would have bonded no matter what. It was just my luck Alan happened to not find me irritating.
putrefaction: (where stars align)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
[A bitter smile lingers on his lips.]

I wonder. It's less that I distrust his views and more that I can't accept mine.
putrefaction: (an odd amount)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

[In all sense. Nigel would rather not explore the details.]

You have a nice home.
putrefaction: (stepped out of time)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
[The tiniest of frowns.]

I'm surprised you built it, then.

[As for the point:]

Yes, I am a fool. There was no denying it.
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putrefaction: (precept by precept)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[The man passes as an existence beyond Nigel's paygrade, and he speaks of a truth Nigel can empathize with. It is a trade--Nigel understands that much--but where he might fall to abridgement, he opts otherwise.

Blue-green eyes settle on the grain in the wood.]


Alan loves me. I cannot live without him. We exist as a bond, yes, but what else can I do but mangle it? Subject that precious man to my stagnation? Perhaps he will finally understand and leave me.

[Before Nigel ruins him.]
putrefaction: (make my eyes pass on)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Nigel cannot answer Alain. Not with the hand pressed against his hair. Instead, he stares at the blurs and contemplates the meaning. He wonders at what exactly he claims to hold.

If Alain was Alan, Nigel might cry. As Alain is Alain, Nigel allows silence to overrun him, to choke down the urge and give rise to a state of apathy.]
putrefaction: (song)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's what I do best.

[Though he's sure this is becoming annoying.]

But I'm not so rude as to reject your advice when under your roof.
putrefaction: (a kindly regard)

[personal profile] putrefaction 2013-08-29 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Nigel cannot help the small smile.]

How unfair.

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