[ The smile that stretches across Bastien's face is closed-lip, asymmetrical, friendly but also acknowledging and restrained. ]
No, I don't want it back.
[ He steps back and turns aside, long enough to have a quick conversation with the guards, to tell them it's fine and they can take fifteen–look, here, he has a deck of cards, go sit down and play a few hands—so he can steal the stool one of them was sitting on. He drags it closer with his ankle to sit on in front of the door.
It isn't that he's changed his mind and decided Tav was behaving sensibly and helpfully and no one should have told him to quiet down for the time being. It's— ]
You are in a new world. You haven't been here very long or seen very much of it. And you clearly have a lot going on—and so do we. All of us. But I should have been kinder.
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No, I don't want it back.
[ He steps back and turns aside, long enough to have a quick conversation with the guards, to tell them it's fine and they can take fifteen–look, here, he has a deck of cards, go sit down and play a few hands—so he can steal the stool one of them was sitting on. He drags it closer with his ankle to sit on in front of the door.
It isn't that he's changed his mind and decided Tav was behaving sensibly and helpfully and no one should have told him to quiet down for the time being. It's— ]
You are in a new world. You haven't been here very long or seen very much of it. And you clearly have a lot going on—and so do we. All of us. But I should have been kinder.