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Oct. 30th, 2008 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Tomorrow Mary turns thirteen.
The cook is going to make a cake and she is to be let off lessons. Other than that she's not really sure what to make of this; despite the cold weather, she's sitting outside by her tree (now bare) in her garden, trying to decide.
The cook is going to make a cake and she is to be let off lessons. Other than that she's not really sure what to make of this; despite the cold weather, she's sitting outside by her tree (now bare) in her garden, trying to decide.
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Date: 2008-10-31 04:42 am (UTC)"But I do not think it is always strategy. For there to be strategy you must be wanting to win something."
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Date: 2008-10-31 04:42 am (UTC)"And do you truly imagine that there is a moment in which a man or woman is not looking to win something?"
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Date: 2008-10-31 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-31 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-31 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-31 04:57 am (UTC)"I may, I suppose, hope that such a belief serves you well. I find it doubtful, as your world is not so very different from my own."
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Date: 2008-10-31 05:01 am (UTC)"And you always are because you are always thinking of strategy.
If neither of the people who are talking is trying to win then - then it is different."
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Date: 2008-10-31 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-31 06:14 am (UTC)The word Mary is looking for, and not finding right at the moment, is 'trust'.
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Date: 2008-11-01 03:58 am (UTC)Is he still teasing? The arch of his eyebrows suggests he may well be.
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:00 am (UTC)"I do not think that 'I do not wish you to die' counts as an agenda."
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:02 am (UTC)Galadan's own agenda for Mary, such as it is--
Well. That is neither here nor there, at the moment.
Or is it?
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:08 am (UTC)Mary is fairly certain that Galadan does not wish her to die, and that he does wish her to be well-educated. She has not yet thought about what other goals he might have than that.
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:11 am (UTC)Don't answer that.
"And shall I ask you about your friend Wellard, then?"
Galadan has trouble believing that Mary does not have plans to keep Wellard safe from himself. Somehow.
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:19 am (UTC)"Though I think sometimes that perhaps I ought. Mostly I just shout at him."
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:23 am (UTC)"And how effective a tactic has that proven to be? If I may ask, of course."
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:30 am (UTC)Obviously this is all due to Mary's expert coaching.
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:36 am (UTC)Galadan's tone is very dry.
"In the spirit of academic curiosity, of course."
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:40 am (UTC). . . has she spoken to him more than that?
"- and things have gone more quickly here than they have in Milliways!"
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:48 am (UTC)His silence speaks volumes, however.
Volumes in multiple editions, even.
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Date: 2008-11-01 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-01 05:02 am (UTC)That eyebrow is not going anywhere.
"Your Wellard does not much appear to be the trainable type."
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Date: 2008-11-01 05:08 am (UTC)Mary says this with quick vehemence; Mary is the only one who is allowed to insult Mary's friends!
"Only extremely prone to rushing into things without thinking - but that is because he is brave usually, and because he wishes to help and does not think how. He is the one who could use lessons in strategy."
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Date: 2008-11-01 05:10 am (UTC)His voice is dry as the Sahara. In a bad year.
"For I do not believe for a moment that young Master Wellard is the only one to rush in without thinking."
Yes, Mary. He is talking about you.
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Date: 2008-11-01 05:14 am (UTC)"I think! I am very careful. I only rush when there is not time."
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