[No qualms, no reservations, no counter-negotiating. Two bottles it is. He doesn't even call it a steep price. Why would he when he sees the play of expressions that cross Zoro's eyes, subtle and fleeting but no less marked--little signs along a trail pointing him on the way.
You have to take people on their own terms, let them lead you and see where they go. You have to surrender to their current or the only places you'll end up are ones you've already been--your places, not theirs. These are things Vrenille has learned by experience; they're the ways he's survived. Only now he doesn't do them for survival. Now he does them because he wants to, because it matters. Getting to know Zoro, coming to understand him on his own terms, that matters to him.
The edge of anger tells him some of it too. And Vrenille shares the sentiment; he's just had a lot longer to get used to it.]
Creator's bitter that no one's given him his own personal giganticus lupicus yet, maybe. I'll never put it past him just being a vindictive little shit. Whole damn experiment's basically his vanity project anyway. I'll tell you my thoughts on all that too sometime--that'll be three bottles.
[Actually, he'd tell him for less. He'd tell him for none. But he won't tell him over the network. It's too high risk for them both, even in a private conversation.]
But at least now I've only gotta jump their hoop once instead of three times. It's a trade.
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[No qualms, no reservations, no counter-negotiating. Two bottles it is. He doesn't even call it a steep price. Why would he when he sees the play of expressions that cross Zoro's eyes, subtle and fleeting but no less marked--little signs along a trail pointing him on the way.
You have to take people on their own terms, let them lead you and see where they go. You have to surrender to their current or the only places you'll end up are ones you've already been--your places, not theirs. These are things Vrenille has learned by experience; they're the ways he's survived. Only now he doesn't do them for survival. Now he does them because he wants to, because it matters. Getting to know Zoro, coming to understand him on his own terms, that matters to him.
The edge of anger tells him some of it too. And Vrenille shares the sentiment; he's just had a lot longer to get used to it.]
Creator's bitter that no one's given him his own personal giganticus lupicus yet, maybe. I'll never put it past him just being a vindictive little shit. Whole damn experiment's basically his vanity project anyway. I'll tell you my thoughts on all that too sometime--that'll be three bottles.
[Actually, he'd tell him for less. He'd tell him for none. But he won't tell him over the network. It's too high risk for them both, even in a private conversation.]
But at least now I've only gotta jump their hoop once instead of three times. It's a trade.