( she's quiet for a moment, drinking a little before admitting-- )
Perhaps it is.
( oh, lilith hadn't weighed anything up before she'd gone into it but she'd realised that she was much more content having agnes in her life than being apart from her, something that she had tried to do )
As much as hope can be-- difficult.
( the hope that nothing would happen, that no one would leave or be hurt )
Hope's bloody awful, but life's really not worth much without it.
[He knows it's kind of soft of him to admit, but Lilith already knows he's soft.
And it's true. There's not much point in existence without hope. That things will be alright, that they'll get better, work out. That the universe can't be endlessly cruel.]
dated to a day or so after the orgy, text, un: dgray
Oh, the possibilities are endless You're as empty as I am, Gray, that's not a good combination. I'd likely have tried to take something from you that you can't give
[Which wouldn't have gone well for him, esoterically speaking.]
The last time someone tried to take something of mine that I lacked, nothing happened. Why do you think you'd be different?
[ assuming they're talking about his soul, that is. Dorian's dealt with things before that found out the hard way that his soul was already accounted for. ]
Last times. Plural. Different demons, the ghosts of my past, an annoying man by the name of Deacon Brodie. All of them attempted to threaten me with something based on the status of my soul. All of them failed.
[ Dorian is the sort of man who plays chicken with the supernatural on a regular basis. He's also the sort of man who does NOT think things through. It's a dangerous combination. ]
That depends. Do you want to start slow or jump right into the thick of it?
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