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[savewell]

I think people find themselves short on kindness when they're afraid. It's a shame, because that's also often when kindness is needed most.

In any case, it's not rare with you.

[reposing]

If nothing else, fear is indeed very commonplace in Wallachia.

You think so, yet I was rude to you when we first met.

[savewell]

You were, but if you were thinking that you'd been the rudest person I've had the displeasure of meeting in recent memory, I'm sorry to say you've run up against some very stiff competition.

You did offer your help, however gruffly at first. And you've yet to call me ugly. So I'm afraid you'll have to be far more rude, now, if you intend to make up that lost ground.

[reposing]

Oh my. I have a lot to catch up on, then. Well, I'm not going to lie and call you "ugly", that's absurd. Anyone who has called you as such is blinder than a mole.

[savewell]

[Well, never mind the nightlight, then, HER BLUSHING will do admirably at lighting up the room as it is.]

If that's your attempt at being rude, then I'd certainly like to see how you are at your most courteous.

[reposing]

Oh no, I can be a horrendous bastard. Give me time.

[savewell]

I'll believe that when I see it! What are you going to do, pull my hair? Push me in a lake?

You've already promised not to tell lies while you're being rude, so let's just rule that out from the start.

[reposing]

Are you actually asking me to be rude to you now? Just to prove that I can?

[savewell]

You know, I just so think I am. Go on, then, take all the time you like. Let's see what you come up with.

[reposing]

Oh, this is a terrible idea. But fine.

Are you the type of person to use animal entrails for medicinal use, or do you at least boil your grass?

[savewell]

I said rude, not disgusting! But come now, I'm barely scandalized. Is that your very best?

[reposing]

Look, I've little reason to be rude to you yet, give me time.

[savewell]

Yes, that's about what I expected you'd say. When you couldn't do it.

As a matter of fact, you've done just the opposite, and been kind to me while you were trying to be rude.

[reposing]

Goodness. Perhaps you are indeed the rudest of us both.

It's a bit difficult to be when someone has been kind to me in return, truthfully.

[savewell]

I most certainly am NOT!

...Though, if you'll pardon me being a bit forward, there is something I've been meaning to ask you. It's nothing awful, I promise.

[reposing]

Being forward is not the same as rude. Please, ask me what you wish.

[savewell]

Do you always keep your hair so long? I think yours might be longer than mine, even, and mine always gets in the way if I don't pin it back. How do you keep it from going all a mess?

[reposing]

I have for ages, yes. Though I'll admit it's gotten a bit longer than usual in the past few months. I'll admit that I don't exactly have typical means to keep it as it is.

[savewell]

[A few months...hmmm. That's not the first time he's mentioned that interval of time this conversation.]

Well, it does look very fine on you. You might do well to trim the ends a bit, though. You've gone a little uneven at the bottom.

[reposing]

Ah. You're probably right. I'd sort of ignored certain things before I was heading out to Danesti.

[savewell]

You were lonely and keeping to yourself, I imagine. It's understandable.

But never mind that. I didn't mean to make things glum all over again. You can ask me something strange and invasive if you like, to make things even.

[reposing]

Something like that.

It's fine. It's a bit difficult to avoid, I imagine. I suppose I might ask, what happened to your father?

[savewell]

Oh. Well, um. The physicians said it was his heart. His heart failed him.

I'm not sure if there's a simple way to explain it, but. There was a certain creature that demanded a yearly sacrifice of us, and it happened that this year, the sacrifice was to be me. So I had...gone, and said my goodbyes, and I suppose you can imagine what the thought of it did to my parents — my father especially.

After I was saved, word reached them that I had been spared, and the shock of it all, so much in so short a time...I think it was just too much for him.

[reposing]

I see. A lot for an older man. And I imagine there were not many doctors prepared to help him.

You feel at fault?

[savewell]

They tried everything. It was horrible to watch them running in and out, bringing this herb and that ointment and this spell and that remedy. And all the while it was like we were all holding our breath, hoping that this one would be different than the others, but none of them changed a thing.

I feel...I'm sure it sounds nonsensical, doesn't it, but I do feel responsible. I didn't want or intend it, but...it was because of what happened to me, that it happened to him. It's hard to be the cause of something without feeling in some way at fault for it.