inaurare: (Wistful)
inaurare ([personal profile] inaurare) wrote in [community profile] elnysa 2017-09-27 07:42 am (UTC)

So long as you are not making yourself fit the work. I think perhaps it fits some better than others.

[he doesn't mean this disparagingly... but it's hard to bring his tone across, through this device. He knows well enough what it is to try to make himself fit that life - how he must have broken pieces off himself, doing so.

Something gives him pause, though]


They let you keep the money?

[...it was never like that in his experience. He was able to keep gifts - received a great many of them - but the House kept all of the money, and Xanthe could - and did, once - even take possession of the gifts, if he so wished.

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