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[morozova]

You can't control me. But you already know that.
And I don't think you want to, truthfully. Even if you're trying to convince yourself otherwise.

You don't want me in your home, Alina.
Right now you want to be safe, and so I'm offering you that while allowing you the choice when and on what terms you see me. Because when have I refused you anything, truly? Your little tracker friend, aside.

[sunmon]

how kind of you to spare me the trouble of deciding how i feel.

[morozova]

Do you want me to return to your home?

[sunmon]

stop twisting things.

[morozova]

Is that what I'm doing?
Because so far you haven't given me a straight answer.

[sunmon]

i don't owe you one.

[morozova]

So you're refusing me.

[sunmon]

[ she can hear the ice in his voice as if he'd spoken the words. alina thinks of every terrible thing he's ever done. thinks of the nichevo'ya in her studio. the cold of the table. her stomach feels like a stone. ]

yes.

[ she won't be afraid of him. she won't. ]

[morozova]

Very well.

[sunmon]

next time you want something, don't waste both of our time by pretending to be penitent.

[morozova]

Oh, I daresay I won't be asking you for favours any time soon, little saint.

[sunmon]

[ cool cool she'll just be hypervigilant for the next, like, week. which will probably very coolly line up with reggie's coma, which will make her feel 100% more comfortable and not a all extra hypervigilant. ]