(He seems quite reluctant to ever accepting help. Anything beyond that, I never learned about. We had... a fundamental misunderstanding at that point.
Namely of what constitutes privacy, at it's core. )
[ There's her own want of advice there, perhaps, she is out of step in a way that doesn't exactly matter - she can do her job perfectly to satisfaction. This was all familiar to her in a way she couldn't say was to most of the hosts she's met. The veils, the stepping around political alliances, the dagger under the cloak. She knows it well and knows how to be amidst it.
But the rest of the hive? That she keep finding the ground slipping out from beneath her feet. ]
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Namely of what constitutes privacy, at it's core. )
[ There's her own want of advice there, perhaps, she is out of step in a way that doesn't exactly matter - she can do her job perfectly to satisfaction. This was all familiar to her in a way she couldn't say was to most of the hosts she's met. The veils, the stepping around political alliances, the dagger under the cloak. She knows it well and knows how to be amidst it.
But the rest of the hive? That she keep finding the ground slipping out from beneath her feet. ]