[ He winces at the laugh. The sound has a curiously enlivening effect on his frazzled nerves, even as he wishes she weren't laughing at him. But still... ]
[ Still. ]
[ It's better than her anger. ]
Yes. [ That this -- incident -- deprives him of any pleasure doesn't even register. That it reduces him to a prop, a plaything, doesn't even occur to him. He's never been anything but. Even so, he ignores a sting of ...not sadness. But something close. ] As long as it ...doesn't bother you.
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[ Still. ]
[ It's better than her anger. ]
Yes. [ That this -- incident -- deprives him of any pleasure doesn't even register. That it reduces him to a prop, a plaything, doesn't even occur to him. He's never been anything but. Even so, he ignores a sting of ...not sadness. But something close. ] As long as it ...doesn't bother you.