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Elizabeth ([personal profile] tearmeanewone) wrote2013-05-09 09:58 pm
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rendez-vous + APPOINTMENT POST

[This is an appointment post for Elizabeth at [community profile] luceti.]

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[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-08 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Of course. But the damage was done.

[she finishes a rather pretty, broad bow and sets to pinning the rest, leaving the moral unspoken. It's a story with several morals, anyway, and Elizabeth's very nature is to fish about in ambiguity and find precisely what will serve her best.]
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[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-08 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Quite. Unless you don't have to remember to mind it in the first place.

[On a more pragmatic note, she highly doubts that the girl has much more than the practical essentials of managing her own hair. But she hardly would have come in on this little errand just for that.]
quantumgrammar: (if an atom)

[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-08 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Rosalind does not truly laugh. But she comes perhaps as close as Elizabeth has ever heard her, a scoffing little tch escaping just before her words.]

If I meant to speak of one thing, I would have saved both of our time and done so. Parable is the vehicle of broader ideas.

[She finishes twisting the last lock and pinning it into place, and steps back, looking over her work with an appraising eye.]

Finished.
quantumgrammar: (chin up)

[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-08 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
And while doctoring to unfamiliar people, in an unfamiliar place?

[Rosalind is perhaps twenty-four hours in this world, but the vital information may be absorbed within the course of an hour or two, and she has a few decades' advantage over Elizabeth when it comes to thinking through new situations and facing adversity. She's learned that when racing into the unknown, one cannot afford a narrow view.]
quantumgrammar: (it's all a matter of perspective)

[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-09 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
I can't imagine why I would stop now.

[It may be a slightly coy answer, but the circumstances are so different that Rosalind frankly doesn't feel she owed them perfect gravity. She's followed Robert into uncharted territory more than once, anyway, just as he has done for her.]
quantumgrammar: (nothing beats the cage)

[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-10 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah. Now there's a better question - one she does not already know the answer to. Rosalind leans back against the side of the desk, half-turned toward Elizabeth as she speaks.]

It was. To support him is in part a simple matter of self-interest, but not entirely. [She studies the floorboards for a moment, thoughtfully, eyebrows lifting and head canting to the side after a second, as if in allowance of the argument she knows Robert would make.] Really, everything we do is ultimately a matter of selfishness. We seek pleasure and flee pain. What we call character is simply a matter of what brings us satisfaction, and how deeply we fear.
quantumgrammar: (I see King Lear)

[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-13 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Little wonder Robert took to the girl so well - he was just as sentimental as she was. Unfortunately at the moment, she was rather incisive too, and showing very fine instincts for a girl who had been raised in isolation in a tower. Rosalind took her time in answering - it was hardly the sort of quastion one could rush into addressing.]

Worry is a waste of time. [She still isn't looking at Elizabeth as she answers, and certainly that is telling enough, the way she studies the middle distance with lidded eyes.] I cannot imagine a way he could be taken from me that I, with sufficient forethought, might prevent.

[She almost leaves it at that - another incomplete answer, another enigma. But then, on some silent and unspoken impulse, she does not.]

I find it difficult to imagine life without him, though.
quantumgrammar: (chin up)

[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-14 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Precisely.

[And just like that , Elizabeth comes right back to practicality, to simplicity, to sense. A neat little circle, reason to emotion to reason, and there's something perfectly-suited about how cleanly she ties it all together.

The common strain of humanity is a crude and unsatisfying thing, to Rosalind, who has always been drawn to the undreamed-of. But after everything that's happened, seeing dozens of dozens of iterations of the girl, there is an unanticipated, quiet pleasure in these quiet suggestions that Elizabeth is exceptional in a way unlike any of the men or women who have brought her to this point.

Perhaps it should not be so unanticipated. Rosalind, after all, has always gravitated toward the exceptional. She glances back at last, pushing lightly off the desk and clasping her hands in front of her.]


Preventing what you do not desire, and pursuing what you do. Not that you seem to have especial trouble with either.
quantumgrammar: (sidelong)

[personal profile] quantumgrammar 2013-09-22 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[She actually gives a soft noise for that, a little 'hm' that is as appreciative as it is bemused, as she walks over to have a look at Elizabeth's incompletely packed bags.]

The warm sort? That they know no forgiveness. Be as ready for the cold of night as you are for the heat of day. Drink as much water as you can bear. Keep the sun from your skin.