[She says, and the look she gives him is long and slanted with consideration. This is dumb. There's no reason to be embarrassed. But there's already so much that the other people here seem to hold in common, knowledge that feels alien and distant to her, whilst so much of what she considers mundane and run of the mill has been met with raised brows of surprise. Sometimes it feels exhausting.
In the end she shrugs, casual. Like it's nothing.]
I've just never seen one before. We didn't have those back on the Ninth. We didn't have much of anything that wasn't long dead, or had one rheumatic foot in the grave already. It's called House of the Locked Tomb for a reason. The whole place is a fucking mausoleum.
[And she reaches to take a swig of her drink, still with that forced airiness. She knows it means nothing to him, a stranger from some distant solar system. But it's hard to forget the way the other House representatives had clearly perceived them. Shadow cultists. Creepy fucking weirdos who have made a grave their home.]
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[She says, and the look she gives him is long and slanted with consideration. This is dumb. There's no reason to be embarrassed. But there's already so much that the other people here seem to hold in common, knowledge that feels alien and distant to her, whilst so much of what she considers mundane and run of the mill has been met with raised brows of surprise. Sometimes it feels exhausting.
In the end she shrugs, casual. Like it's nothing.]
I've just never seen one before. We didn't have those back on the Ninth. We didn't have much of anything that wasn't long dead, or had one rheumatic foot in the grave already. It's called House of the Locked Tomb for a reason. The whole place is a fucking mausoleum.
[And she reaches to take a swig of her drink, still with that forced airiness. She knows it means nothing to him, a stranger from some distant solar system. But it's hard to forget the way the other House representatives had clearly perceived them. Shadow cultists. Creepy fucking weirdos who have made a grave their home.]