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Ortus Nigenad ([personal profile] noniad) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-05-30 02:55 am (UTC)

It is the knee slap which nearly undoes him.

Next to nothing changes in his demeanor. He still does not curl his hands shut, nor clench his jaw. There is simply a complete cessation of motion save for the minute realignment of his features, his own placid mask cracked down its center over an icy sheen of -

And it is gone so swiftly it is as if there was never a lapse, his face only round and dull and foolish in its glumness. Whatever flare may have been is doused in dim nothingness, as Ortus schools himself once more to impassivity.

"To seek aid, if I am able to enlist it," he says, with an air of apology for the answer, "To seek education, if I am not."

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