[He got to what! That earns a low whistle out of Palamedes, genuinely impressed; if not for sea smells and how he was most certainly, ah, dead in said sea when this happened, he'd have liked to see it. Perhaps the wall can have an extra column for victories, like "gunpowder bomb" and "personal growth."]
That does help, actually. [He's always tried to split his time between duty work and personal project work, but those are both still work; the insistence lately on all sides that he do things unrelated to either would feel intentional, if anyone involved actually knew each other. Maybe it is, cosmically; maybe he needs to go to parties where they play "pin the tooth on the worm," and make crafts, and build boats with Viktor to entertain Rio.
It doesn't sound so bad, as these things go. He drums his fingers on his knee, briefly thoughtful.]
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That does help, actually. [He's always tried to split his time between duty work and personal project work, but those are both still work; the insistence lately on all sides that he do things unrelated to either would feel intentional, if anyone involved actually knew each other. Maybe it is, cosmically; maybe he needs to go to parties where they play "pin the tooth on the worm," and make crafts, and build boats with Viktor to entertain Rio.
It doesn't sound so bad, as these things go. He drums his fingers on his knee, briefly thoughtful.]
Well, you've got me figured out. I'm a sucker.