[ He catches Stanford catch him looking, but Ford doesn't bristle. Instead he says... that, apparently.
And what, genuinely, does that mean? What is he meant to construe from that? Ozpin feels terribly far from solid ground; he would be better off turning away and seeking another conversation entirely. This will do neither of them much good. It feels like walking on thin ice above some vast and dark water.
(This is a particularly inapt metaphor because they've done that. Long ago, in a dream. He still recalls the constellations.) ]
I do not recognize any other appealing option.
[ He is losing face, because this is said stiffly. Qrow's offer hangs heavy over his shoulders. He could have accepted it; he could still accept it now. He could return home still buzzing with this wound-tight energy, and knock on Qrow's bedroom door, and perhaps it would even be easy.
But that isn't what he wants. It seems unwise indeed to ask what he wants, here and now. ]
I would not ask that of anyone. [ This is so patently a lie it cannot stand, and he is pressed to amend: ] Not among my household.
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And what, genuinely, does that mean? What is he meant to construe from that? Ozpin feels terribly far from solid ground; he would be better off turning away and seeking another conversation entirely. This will do neither of them much good. It feels like walking on thin ice above some vast and dark water.
(This is a particularly inapt metaphor because they've done that. Long ago, in a dream. He still recalls the constellations.) ]
I do not recognize any other appealing option.
[ He is losing face, because this is said stiffly. Qrow's offer hangs heavy over his shoulders. He could have accepted it; he could still accept it now. He could return home still buzzing with this wound-tight energy, and knock on Qrow's bedroom door, and perhaps it would even be easy.
But that isn't what he wants. It seems unwise indeed to ask what he wants, here and now. ]
I would not ask that of anyone. [ This is so patently a lie it cannot stand, and he is pressed to amend: ] Not among my household.