The second portion leaves her looking contemplatively down into her mug, as if the rapidly-cooling tea will convey how to explain what she'd like to without being confusing or upsetting.
"If I were in a real pinch I would, I think, but I don't know if I'd want to consider it a failsafe," she tries, carefully. "There's a lot you can get from someone's own telling of things, but more than that, it's...this place is weird." Obviously. "And people who come here can be different, maybe in not obvious ways. I don't want to just get a whole scoop without earning it, and I wouldn't want to risk parts not lining up."
He is a different person, even if only minutely. He is his own person. No Xeroxes.
"So I might end up just bugging you about it now and then, if it's all the same."
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The second portion leaves her looking contemplatively down into her mug, as if the rapidly-cooling tea will convey how to explain what she'd like to without being confusing or upsetting.
"If I were in a real pinch I would, I think, but I don't know if I'd want to consider it a failsafe," she tries, carefully. "There's a lot you can get from someone's own telling of things, but more than that, it's...this place is weird." Obviously. "And people who come here can be different, maybe in not obvious ways. I don't want to just get a whole scoop without earning it, and I wouldn't want to risk parts not lining up."
He is a different person, even if only minutely. He is his own person. No Xeroxes.
"So I might end up just bugging you about it now and then, if it's all the same."