( No. He sees, he hears. He listens, worse of all; always has. And his smile's oleaginous and bronze, and his one living eye's glinting. And now he sees: the work of Sumeragi Subaru's cherry-skinned mouth, how it rounds and collapses around the abstract vagaries that give men their justifications, while his hushed tones buy their comfort.
Full, manipulative bedside service. Your grandmother's raised a silver-tongued charlatan. Worse of all, Sumeragi Subaru means every word. )
This is how you do it. ( The art of the play. He tips his cigarette until ash crowds down in thick, lumping clusters. The tobacco's too poorly aged. ) You make them feel heard. Unjudged, unhurried, safe in their... pettiness, and their pride, and their shallow-hearted ambitions.
( And he waves only two fingers of the hand, flimsy and bound. )
No, no. Don't waste it on me. ( He's already hook, line and sinker. ) I'm embarrassed I must seem so pathetic right now that you have to resort to this. We used to speak plainly to each other. Other than the corpses, what changed?
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( No. He sees, he hears. He listens, worse of all; always has. And his smile's oleaginous and bronze, and his one living eye's glinting. And now he sees: the work of Sumeragi Subaru's cherry-skinned mouth, how it rounds and collapses around the abstract vagaries that give men their justifications, while his hushed tones buy their comfort.
Full, manipulative bedside service. Your grandmother's raised a silver-tongued charlatan. Worse of all, Sumeragi Subaru means every word. )
This is how you do it. ( The art of the play. He tips his cigarette until ash crowds down in thick, lumping clusters. The tobacco's too poorly aged. ) You make them feel heard. Unjudged, unhurried, safe in their... pettiness, and their pride, and their shallow-hearted ambitions.
( And he waves only two fingers of the hand, flimsy and bound. )
No, no. Don't waste it on me. ( He's already hook, line and sinker. ) I'm embarrassed I must seem so pathetic right now that you have to resort to this. We used to speak plainly to each other. Other than the corpses, what changed?