[ 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?
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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.
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You're very accommodating.
[ ...It's so different from a dragon he knows. ]
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Here:]
Some might disagree with your assessment.
[But he is attempting to be polite. Detached.]
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The man gets up to walk closer, steps silent despite his larger form.
And a hand drops into Nigel's hair as Alain smiles. ]
Well, we are always outcasts, are we not?
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Society's loss, I suppose.
[--is the murmur.]
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Ah, but it allows for closer bonds between.
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Funny how that works. Is this something...your companion would agree with?
[That stalker dragon Nigel still cannot form opinions on.]
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...Nehnahlmey and I would have bonded no matter what. We are more than Grah-Zeymahzin, fron and vahzah sos.
[ Kin and true blood, but Alain will not sound more like a dragon and translate. ]
...Closer than any other bonds.
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Thus, pain flashes momentarily behind his eyes before it fades to calm.]
...That is good.
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Still, Alain passes over the reaction, continuing as casually as he had been. ]
Is it not the same with you and yours?
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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.
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I wonder. It's less that I distrust his views and more that I can't accept mine.
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[In all sense. Nigel would rather not explore the details.]
You have a nice home.
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[ To make his point. ]
I'm not so kind as to allow the subject change.
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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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[ Alain gives a trade. He speaks truths he has never told another soul, Man, Mer, or Dov. ]
It was not the fact of foolishness that I wished you to think on.
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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.]
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Instead, the man reaches out again, to press his palm to the side of the other's head. ]
He will never leave you. Niall and I can both see and speak for that. Your existence does not pain him, and you, Nigel, are nothing close to the stagnation you claim to hold.
[ Let the Dragonborn tell you of stagnation, of what he has seen. Let him describe to you mages caught in theories, Nords in prejudices, and kings in times past. Let him tell you further of his family, and that death. ]
You love Alan, and he cannot live without you.
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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.]
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...Don't mourn what you have not lost.
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[Though he's sure this is becoming annoying.]
But I'm not so rude as to reject your advice when under your roof.
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Then we'll go outside to continue speaking, if that's your reasoning.
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How unfair.
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...I obviously need to think of fire enemies next time. -_-;;
dunmer bandits. dunmer bandits everywhere.
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