No, I confess, it's not just to get to know you. I could do that easily enough with the help of the SkyPhone, should you care to answer in the future. [He puts both hands up to show he means know harm, rings glinting in the glow from the cabin's overhead light. His reasoning had seemed much more sound when he'd been discussing it with Captain fon Ronsenburg, he had to admit.]
I recognized something in you that I had, I admit, been feeling myself not so long ago, and was part of my aforementioned need for distraction. Now, your business is your own, and I will not pry. I know better than most the importance of keeping secrets. But you rather struck me as needing to allow yourself to relax. Perhaps it was the caustic nature of your end of each of your conversations that lead me to believe so, but there you are.
[He gestures broadly.] I offer you a few hours to enjoy the view. Whatever or whomever has done you wrong, forget them for a time.
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Date: 2011-05-02 10:44 pm (UTC)I recognized something in you that I had, I admit, been feeling myself not so long ago, and was part of my aforementioned need for distraction. Now, your business is your own, and I will not pry. I know better than most the importance of keeping secrets. But you rather struck me as needing to allow yourself to relax. Perhaps it was the caustic nature of your end of each of your conversations that lead me to believe so, but there you are.
[He gestures broadly.] I offer you a few hours to enjoy the view. Whatever or whomever has done you wrong, forget them for a time.