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voicemail;
voice call;
text message;
action log.

They aren't the same, the Wills. Not where it matters.

Imagine if someone called you crazy.

Experience speaks: it's frustrating.

It was not, is not, and never has been my intention to call him crazy, nor did I use any language to explicitly imply as such. Whatever he's inferring from my questions is simply incorrect.

[He pauses in his reply, realizing for the first time that his actual intent might not be so clear without some context.]

My own experience speaks to the fact that shapeshifters are wily beasts, and must be rooted out if detected.

You don't find that a bit hypocritical?

[Whoa, there.]

How do you mean?

Accurately.

He isn't that, either.

I fail to see how I can be faulted for attempting to ascertain that for myself. Still, I'll take your word for it.

[But he's not going to let the rest of it go.]

How can you be sure it's so accurate?

Not faulted.

It is only a familiar feeling. Wouldn't you rather want to know?

Some of us are skilled at survival by blending in. Some of us are skilled in survival by knowing.

Edited 2013-09-11 18:57 (UTC)

[This could be bad. But he's going to tread lightly for now.]

I take it you're the type who "knows".

Whether desired or not. Usually not.

And what sort of things do you "know"?

Memories. Personal truths. Desires. Secrets. Lies. Without context or explanation. Pieces of puzzles set alight and left to ashes.

What people think of me before. What they think of me after I tell them this.

Doesn't sound like a terribly pleasant skill to have.

[And what it could mean for him is concerning.]

It isn't. [ She could tell him more. Tell him why. But she doubts he'd want to know right now. ]

But I am, like you, interested in survival. And I am, like you, good at keeping secrets.

Edited 2013-09-11 20:03 (UTC)

In that case, it would be sincerely appreciated if this secret could be one you'll continue to keep.

[Not that he'd going to assume it will come at no cost to him.]

[ But she doesn't want anything. Except his friendship which has to be earned anyway. ]

I know. Have been will continue.

Thank you, Miss River.

[Trust, like friendship, has to be earned as well, and Cyrus isn't so sure that he's ready to give it just yet. But for now, he has little choice.]

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