"...You have far more important things to occupy yourself with."
Antarcticite can take a hint.
Dropping the subject is not the same as forgetting about it completely; it will sit with them for quite some time now, how the partnerships among gems that they had idealized and sometimes daydreamed about were in fact far more complex than they could imagine. Yet, they must remind themselves, their partnership with Phos had been a complicated thing too, hadn't it? Brief and involuntary as it had been, there had been more to their dynamic than simply a clumsy, absent-minded junior inconveniencing their senior.
"Yes, I should take the initiative, shouldn't I," they say, and resolutely put thoughts of partnerships out of their mind, at least for the moment. They get to their feet, rather careful with their newly mended leg, and then give a short, respectful bow Rutile's way. "Thank you for your help. Perhaps, once I'm more settled, we can talk again, about..." There, they trail off some, frowning; dwelling on an old life will do nothing for them here, but they cannot help their curiosity. "About what has happened back home, since I was taken."
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Antarcticite can take a hint.
Dropping the subject is not the same as forgetting about it completely; it will sit with them for quite some time now, how the partnerships among gems that they had idealized and sometimes daydreamed about were in fact far more complex than they could imagine. Yet, they must remind themselves, their partnership with Phos had been a complicated thing too, hadn't it? Brief and involuntary as it had been, there had been more to their dynamic than simply a clumsy, absent-minded junior inconveniencing their senior.
"Yes, I should take the initiative, shouldn't I," they say, and resolutely put thoughts of partnerships out of their mind, at least for the moment. They get to their feet, rather careful with their newly mended leg, and then give a short, respectful bow Rutile's way. "Thank you for your help. Perhaps, once I'm more settled, we can talk again, about..." There, they trail off some, frowning; dwelling on an old life will do nothing for them here, but they cannot help their curiosity. "About what has happened back home, since I was taken."