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#empath problems ([personal profile] dragony) wrote in [community profile] f2020 2020-09-24 10:45 am (UTC)

[ He doesn't actually like them. The friends he's here to see — if there are any. It's a strange thing to lie about, if he is trying to lie, but she can hear it in his voice. There's no tilt to his smile, no warmth to his tone or in his eyes, all the things that should be easy and natural for him absent or shuttered away. That's weird, isn't it?

It's Jaime, but it isn't. Is she still on the mark, cleaving the differences — or is he so different that she can't read him right at all?

She shouldn't even spend this much time looking at him. She doesn't know how transparent her examination is, or if he even knows how to see emotion in her face, but it's too risky. She turns her gaze towards the bottles on display.
]

Mmm. I'm sure you'd find me full of surprises. [ Ugh. That sounds like an invitation. When the bartender comes back with Jaime's beer (seriously, beer? how miserable is he?), she finally makes her own request and... it's just the strongest concoction she can get. She needs all the help she can get. And while she waits for that, she should say something to blow him off... something to get him to walk away and not think of her a moment longer...

But... it's so good to hear his voice again, even in this state.
]

I can pretend that I don't know you, if you're that attached to the idea. I can't imagine you want this kind of blow to your reputation.

[ The "being seen with and buying drinks for Ruka, of all people" thing. Here, finally, she glances back his way. ]

Easiest way to ditch your friends, though.

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