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'Any kneecaps' prompts a certain off the cuff approving head tilt and flex of eyebrows. Yeah, he gets it. He might get it more if the full reply was 'Any kneecaps I'm getting paid to break,' but what is he, particular? No. No Amanza for four generations has survived well by being choosy.
"Allegedly. You can't show me one."
To say that he's made a career of being fun to argue with wouldn't, strictly, be an understatement. It probably helps that in this instance, he is blatantly less than serious as they wind along various narrow streets and traipse up two to five stairs at a time. Or maybe it's just hard to take a man seriously who springs along like an aggressive little dog, cigarillo bobbing between his lips and the buckle of his sword belt clinking companionably against some rivet at his hip.
"You," rifters, "Could say anything about anything and everyone would just have to take your word for it. That's some opportunity for bullshit, if you ask me."
"Allegedly. You can't show me one."
To say that he's made a career of being fun to argue with wouldn't, strictly, be an understatement. It probably helps that in this instance, he is blatantly less than serious as they wind along various narrow streets and traipse up two to five stairs at a time. Or maybe it's just hard to take a man seriously who springs along like an aggressive little dog, cigarillo bobbing between his lips and the buckle of his sword belt clinking companionably against some rivet at his hip.
"You," rifters, "Could say anything about anything and everyone would just have to take your word for it. That's some opportunity for bullshit, if you ask me."
Benedict has enough time to gasp when Abby's hand snakes out, and he watches her eat, his mouth agape in scandalized shock.
"Yes," he says indignantly, "...I'm going to get you for that."
"Yes," he says indignantly, "...I'm going to get you for that."
Edited (punctuation) 2024-01-31 22:24 (UTC)
Knew a guy fell off one once. High winds.
[ and a good push. ]
Name's Lazar. Don't reckon you were around last time I came through.
[ and a good push. ]
Name's Lazar. Don't reckon you were around last time I came through.
Dunno - three years, ish? Bit less. If you got something on heights, I reckon you picked the wrong city.
He's pretending to look and stay mad, but it's impossible with Abby's rapid collapse into whatever this is. Benedict watches her a moment in minor concern, but it's quickly split by a grin of genuine amusement.
"Look at you," he scoffs, "felled by your own hubris."
"Look at you," he scoffs, "felled by your own hubris."
She has to swallow quick to be able to cough, the sound that and half of a laugh mixed in. When she calms down and wipes her eyes, she says, "Fuck. I always am."
Stupid.
But she thinks she might have made him feel a bit better in the process, so it was worth it.
Stupid.
But she thinks she might have made him feel a bit better in the process, so it was worth it.
"I think," Abby replies dryly, nudging into him to make him go left at the top of the flight of stairs that they're currently working on, "You underestimate how much people take my word for it."
It isn't actually fun to bullshit people who don't understand the bullshit you're trying to sell to them either, which can be an issue with people from Thedas. The flow of the joke gets ruined when you have to stop and explain parts of it, et cetera.
She points at him now.
"You just told me that moms from my world aren't real until I can show you one." Case in point??
It isn't actually fun to bullshit people who don't understand the bullshit you're trying to sell to them either, which can be an issue with people from Thedas. The flow of the joke gets ruined when you have to stop and explain parts of it, et cetera.
She points at him now.
"You just told me that moms from my world aren't real until I can show you one." Case in point??
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