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lordoftheozarks ([personal profile] lordoftheozarks) wrote2023-06-13 08:20 pm

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When the ringing stops, all you'll hear is a cold voice that says one simple word, "Speak."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-03-27 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
George takes his tea with thanks, and perhaps slightly plays up his genuine enjoyment for the benefit of his host.

"That's quite some time." By some perspectives anyway, if not George's own, "I suppose that means I must settle in for the long haul, then."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-04-03 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Between the word 'most' and the earlier comment about not being able to partake in tea, George has a few questions. Just not any that seem polite to voice at this juncture. Or that won't have similar questions levied on him in return.

"That's quite the commitment, though I can certainly see the appeal."

He taps on his mug a few times deciding whether or not it's the time to slip out of the pleasantries and into more pertinent matters.

"I have to ask, have you run into any problems with your career choice?"
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-04-07 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
George nods, it's good to know and promising for his own business prospects.

"I'm surprised insistence was necessary." He's not going to voice his opinions more than that, but he's certainly not having Good thoughts on what that phrasing implies.

"I'll be sure to check in with, First Aid you said? At my earliest convenience. There isn't much risk of my passing anything on, but I'll want to be on the good side of at least one doctor regardless."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-04-11 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
"A vampire? I thought vampires were mere folklore." Says the man who was kidnapped by Faeries.

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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-04-29 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I never said you weren't"

They're diverting from the topic, but...

"Different worlds with different variations on the same theme, that makes some sense." He's already seen Erin and come to terms with her world's broken Mask, so this isn't quite the jarring thought it could be "I suppose I may as well tell you, I'm not entirely human myself."

Gilbert isn't going to be happy, but what can you do.
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-04-29 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll hold you to that," George says, and the Wyrd twists around him binding the words to a Pledge. Not that he's going to elaborate further on just what he is without prompting, even with that assurance.

"How long is a long time, if I may?"
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-04-30 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
George just stares for a moment. He's not sure what he was expecting, but more than a thousand? He's really not sure what to do with that.

"Well," he says at length, with something that might be either a laugh or a sigh, "It's nice to know I'm not anywhere near the oldest in the room for once."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-05-01 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
He spends a moment longer keeping the somewhat amazed look on his face. It's symbiotic, Erik likes the attention, and George is enjoying the glamour he sheds in response to it.

"That's a complicated question, but the simplest answer is 132."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-05-02 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Again I say, it's complex."

George taps the side of his cup lightly as he thinks, the sound almost more like stone than nails. There's a risk to sharing more, he has no way of knowing whether this place is safe from the Gentry or not. Given that Dimitri had to contend with Them in a similar situation, the signs point more towards not. But if anyone can handle themselves it'll be a vampire who's over a millennia old. Plus Erin wandering around without a Mask likely poses more of a threat than mere words.

And lord help him he wants a peer he doesn't have to hide from.

"Knowledge of what I am can be dangerous, even explaining what the threats are is dangerous. So if I am to tell you more, I will need a more concrete assurance than 'your secret is safe'. Both that you accept the risk, and that not a single word of what I am will pass your lips to someone who doesn't already know."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-05-10 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
George nods solemnly, rebinding this more detailed promise into the Pledge. He spends some time in silence, collecting his thoughts on a complicated subject into the most pertinent information for right now.

"I'm a Changeling, in the common parlance. Human, until I was taken by the Fair Folk, held in Their domain at the whims of my Keeper, and eventually escaped.

"Therein lies the complexity of age. By years lived the mundane world, I'm 38. Years since my birth, 132. Time experienced? That's more difficult. I'd wager at least 200 years, possibly approaching 3 or 400.

"I'm neither old nor young for what I am, but in my social sphere, by the ages we each claim for ourselves, I'm the oldest by about a century." He smiles, looking off into the distance for a moment, "That's including some who were taken around the same time as me, you can make of that what you will."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-05-17 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you." George says with a small smile, glad of the Mask that means Erik won't see how weak it really is. The worst thing is always how little he regrets what he did — what he became — in Arcadia.

"I've been out for just shy of eight years, which is not half so long as it seems and far longer than it feels."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-05-28 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, this is fine. Losing everyone you've ever known and starting over in an unfamiliar world is far easier the second time."

He laughs, and it's genuine. As much as he cared for the friends he's gathered in London over the last 8 years, it doesn't hurt the same to have lost them as it did his friends and family from before Arcadia. He's had practice now. Wasn't expecting for it to happen again as such, but it wasn't much of a surprise either.

"Rebuilding my business will be annoying, of course, but at least it's something universally transferrable. Even if I doubt it will be anywhere near as lucrative here as I'm used to."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-06-09 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
"One of my specialities was financial domination, I'm not sure that's an ethical offering here. Especially with the rates I charged." He'll miss those clients the most, and not just because of the money they brought in.

"Some direct competition is unavoidable, but I operate within a fairly specific niche. I'm a professional dominant, and I don't include any direct sexual contact as part of my services. That doesn't exactly suit everyone who is looking for a sex worker, no matter their preferred gender. Which is part of why I wanted to be sure to meet you, I prefer to have colleagues I know and trust to refer potential clients to if I'm not going to be a good fit."