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[personal profile] staysail 2019-10-23 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[If she was involved in something, chances are, she wouldn't have been around to be a candidate.

--This is what Darras thinks, and does not say. He's not about to insult Yseult, or give her away, if she's kept some bits back. And that's not even to have implied that Velez would have been killed. She might have simply been arrested, dragged off somewhere, depending on her crime. But she still wouldn't have been around, is the point.

Instead of saying any of that, Darras takes a drink and waits, patiently, for Yseult to answer the question.]
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[personal profile] hassaran 2019-10-30 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ The only reason Yseult isn't rolling her eyes again already is because it seems too soon to do it again, on principle. ]

Her husband was. She didn't seem to be.

[ After a moment she adds, dry: ] I didn't break her heart.
Edited 2019-10-30 05:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] staysail 2019-11-04 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd go for wistful, yeah. Or something like nostalgic.

[Thoughtfully, Darras takes another sip of wine. Gestures, with the glass.]

I s'ppose that depends on the answer to the next question I have, which is: if you didn't break her heart, what did you break of hers? Sense of romance, perhaps? 'Cos nothing could ever be better?
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[personal profile] hassaran 2019-11-09 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Maker. I did nothing! [ a beat ] Well.

[ She shrugs. ] I hadn't counted on such a quick attachment. [ To Bastien, she adds: ] I'm sure you've done the same.
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[personal profile] staysail 2019-11-11 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Darras hasn't quite stopped laughing at Yseult's quick shift--indignation to admission in less then a minute's time.]

Oh, you don't want to get married, mate. You'll end up with a Yseult. Perfect. And then you'll be happy for the rest of your days--it's hard to be an artist and be happy, I imagine--what d'you sing about? Honestly, [this bit is to Yseult, obviously,] it's no wonder your paramour developed that quick attachment. Didn't I fall for the same. It was luck for me that it was reciprocated, that's all. If my luck hadn't been with me, sure and it would be me staring off into the distance. Asking everyone where that librarian had gotten to.
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[personal profile] hassaran 2019-11-22 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yseult looks away with a lift of her wine glass and drinks, deeply. Very deeply. Continuously until they are done speaking. ]

You are both ridiculous. She was a lonely woman with a neglectful husband and a stressful occupation. Any amateur could have seduced her.
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[personal profile] staysail 2019-11-22 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Darras clicks his tongue, exaggerated disapproval.]

Oh, now. Mercenary. And this while we're talking about love, or something like it, anyways.
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[personal profile] hassaran 2019-11-22 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
We're talking about work.

[ A dry look at Darras. To Bastien: ]

And I'm afraid she doesn't like men.
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[personal profile] staysail 2019-11-22 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Your art.

I bet that's what Viana Velez said, while she was holding the pieces of her broken heart together in her hands. Maybe we've got your role wrong, Bastien.
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[personal profile] hassaran 2019-11-23 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
It has! Not often. [ This much, Yseult can agree with. ]

More often they ask me to run away with them, and I agree, and then stage a tragic carriage collision or an accident at sea or something, like with Velez. It's much more work.
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[personal profile] staysail 2019-11-25 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Darras huffs an incredulous sort of laugh.]

This talk. Monsters, both of you. I can't believe I like you both as much as I do. Yseult a little more, of course-- [Wife, he acknowledges this silently by tipping his wine glass in her direction in a sort of salute.] --but even so. Got to be watching my back with you. Her for a staged accident and you for plans to be running away together.

Just break their hearts normally. What's wrong with that.