( it's more than just ridiculous it's downright farcical.
he manages to contain his disdain, even while covered in cheap beer that smells like it would be better suited as paint stripper. acrid, acidic. he lifts his own drink at the proffered greeting and proceeds to make the sort of polite small talk that would have set even his mother's teeth on edge.
takes a long pull of his own drink as he extends mental fingers to the other man. feeling the shape of his mind, a glancing brush of fingertips that will be forgotten easily in the monstrous hangover that awaits him, come morning.
he learns lot of this sad, strange man. learns that, for all the he is deeply troubled, shame coiling like tightening roots through him, it is not because of his interest in other women — or even other men. )
Gambling debts, ( he tells Rey once he finally returns to her, the worst of the beer dried into an impressive stain. he's tempted to burn the shirt, damn the cost. )
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he manages to contain his disdain, even while covered in cheap beer that smells like it would be better suited as paint stripper. acrid, acidic. he lifts his own drink at the proffered greeting and proceeds to make the sort of polite small talk that would have set even his mother's teeth on edge.
takes a long pull of his own drink as he extends mental fingers to the other man. feeling the shape of his mind, a glancing brush of fingertips that will be forgotten easily in the monstrous hangover that awaits him, come morning.
he learns lot of this sad, strange man. learns that, for all the he is deeply troubled, shame coiling like tightening roots through him, it is not because of his interest in other women — or even other men. )
Gambling debts, ( he tells Rey once he finally returns to her, the worst of the beer dried into an impressive stain. he's tempted to burn the shirt, damn the cost. )