There's nothing else it could be, besides worthless, a gesture of petty care in this place that would sooner stretch them into bones than care for them, and - ]
All right.
[Perhaps she only agrees because no one would expect it from her. Who looks at Waltaquin Redditch and sees someone who is capable of being tender?
Resting the bat against her hip, she finally sits behind Nona, bringing her gloved fingers to her hair. Only a few weeks ago, it would be a more unpleasant experience, Quin's hands working with the finesse of a child who pets a cat so hard it bites because it doesn't know any better. But tonight it is practiced and controlled.]
That would make you the twins, by the way, not the crab. But I shan't tell.
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There's nothing else it could be, besides worthless, a gesture of petty care in this place that would sooner stretch them into bones than care for them, and - ]
All right.
[Perhaps she only agrees because no one would expect it from her. Who looks at Waltaquin Redditch and sees someone who is capable of being tender?
Resting the bat against her hip, she finally sits behind Nona, bringing her gloved fingers to her hair. Only a few weeks ago, it would be a more unpleasant experience, Quin's hands working with the finesse of a child who pets a cat so hard it bites because it doesn't know any better. But tonight it is practiced and controlled.]
That would make you the twins, by the way, not the crab. But I shan't tell.