"Goodness, Wagner," is said to the puppy. "Please keep your rather filthy but still impressive paws well away from me and my clothes, will you?"
Ever so politely.
"I'm not a catch; I'm a person with a monstrous past, didn't you know?" He shakes his head a little. "Something will go sideways. I don't know what I'm doing, really; she's married to the native variant of me, which, I don't know. I tell myself it's the same as what I would do, but is it? Would it be? We aren't the same; he left her here, to investigate something or another and cause trouble."
Huffing out a laugh that has no mirth to it. "I don't think I could do that. And that should terrify me." A beat. "It doesn't. That does terrify me. Inevitably something will go wrong. Things go wrong all the time, especially here."
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Ever so politely.
"I'm not a catch; I'm a person with a monstrous past, didn't you know?" He shakes his head a little. "Something will go sideways. I don't know what I'm doing, really; she's married to the native variant of me, which, I don't know. I tell myself it's the same as what I would do, but is it? Would it be? We aren't the same; he left her here, to investigate something or another and cause trouble."
Huffing out a laugh that has no mirth to it. "I don't think I could do that. And that should terrify me." A beat. "It doesn't. That does terrify me. Inevitably something will go wrong. Things go wrong all the time, especially here."