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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 11:52 am
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Sometimes people still looked at them, when they wanted to shop with spare cash, cash that was legitimately theirs -- it burned, it hurt, and inevitably Alexis ended up buying something. They never got to window-shop from inside, anymore, even if it was just entering the shop on the whim; they'd buy knicknacks. Trinkets. Things that fit in their pockets but that they wouldn't, couldn't steal.
It was routine at this point, really. Specialty stores, unique, out-of-towners; it was a way to pass time. There were so many options for purchases they'd never thought about before. They'd taken to perusing antique shops, foreign sweets, anywhere that wasn't too classy for them to blend in with other possible customers. Well. Most other customers.
"Do I know you," Alexis asked, looking at Eve with a little suspicion. She looked familiar -- they couldn't place it, but the wheelchair was more than a little distinctive.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 2:52 pm
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"Um," Alexis said, very eloquently, and fumbled the book they were holding for a few seconds before catching it and putting it down on the nearby table. "I -- was, yeah. Sorry. Nobody's asked me in a few months." (They hadn't talked to very many people in the past few months. It seemed inappropriate, to start interacting while they felt so hollowed-out.) They didn't try to smile, because it wasn't funny, and they had the feeling she wouldn't appreciate it all that much anyways. "Void, then, right?"
Now they were looking at her with restrained interest, and a tiny little flicker of fear. Not the place or time, Alexis.
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:19 pm
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Alexis flinched, when Eve mentioned patrons always did a bad job; it was one thing to hear it from other Nobles (not other, not anymore, but Other) about how the Court should be torn down, because they knew, they'd lived it and lived in it - they could list the fine bones of the hand, the tendons; they could remember Alois breaking their fingers for failure to memorize properly, for failure to retain information. It was the sharpest point of their memories there. But Eve -- she hadn't been a Noble, not the way she talked, so how dare she -
it was stupid. It was stupid. They put the thought aside for later, because anything and everything had to work for anything to be okay again.
"I want 'em back, but." They didn't smile. "With everythin' else goin' on - better I don't hurt anyone again. It was too easy, like that. I don't want people to have to keep cleanin' up for my messes."
(They were lying, but they didn't know it, because they wanted it to be true. They wanted it to be true that it was their fault, that the disadvantages of them having magic outweighed anything else, because then it was okay.)
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