[ —she gives her name in that quick, thoughtless way that makes it sound more like an aside than a correction. he’s free to continue calling her madame if he likes, she won’t force the issue, but the inequality of the conversation just now occurred to her. he’d given his name; she’d but barely given hers.
there’s no time to sit and rest on the laurels of a lovely introduction, however, given the question at hand. ]
And I won’t lie to you, Serge. You can find a great deal of bravery in choice. In choosing. [ a half-shrug. ] But I’m not convinced that an absence of bravery must always result in cowardice.
[ she inhales. ]
This is especially true for all of us kept here—lightyears or millennia or worlds away from the choices we ought to be making back home.
[ that’s the tricky thing about being captures in a place like this: the rules of engagement have all changed. ]
no subject
[ —she gives her name in that quick, thoughtless way that makes it sound more like an aside than a correction. he’s free to continue calling her madame if he likes, she won’t force the issue, but the inequality of the conversation just now occurred to her. he’d given his name; she’d but barely given hers.
there’s no time to sit and rest on the laurels of a lovely introduction, however, given the question at hand. ]
And I won’t lie to you, Serge. You can find a great deal of bravery in choice. In choosing. [ a half-shrug. ] But I’m not convinced that an absence of bravery must always result in cowardice.
[ she inhales. ]
This is especially true for all of us kept here—lightyears or millennia or worlds away from the choices we ought to be making back home.
[ that’s the tricky thing about being captures in a place like this: the rules of engagement have all changed. ]