[voice]

[tongueamok]

As it seems this place has stripped me of my students, I have decided I ought to find another one, perhaps two.

[Probably one. He's not holding his breath here.]

If you have any interest in learning glyphcrafting -- perhaps some minor magics as well, should you show potential -- please fill out an application. I have left them at the Clinic with Kate Galloway for accessibility.

[And also so he doesn't have to meet people in person to hand out these things.]

Thank you.

[Click.]

Comments

[dedikated]

( Oh, she totally can. And she won't tell him she's sorry for his lot, because what does she have to be sorry about? She didn't doom him to this.

Still. Kate feels the ache of realising that someone else she cares for is doomed to die well before their time. )

Least you're somewhere without bears.

( Laugh? Or get annoyed, maybe? She's better at that than this helpless feeling that comes with the idea of Carlisle's death being inevitable. )

[tongueamok]

Only sometimes, as you may recall.

[Annoyed, definitely, as his next response may indicate.]

I would prefer you not take a flippant attitude regarding this, Kate.

[dedikated]

( Look. She's not good at dealing with things unless she can practically solve them. )

Can't fix it. What else am I meant to do?

( If it's just something silly, they don't need to think about it too much, right? )

[tongueamok]

I don't know. I don't know what I expected.

[He's just frustrated, Kate. Forgive him.]

[dedikated]

( SIGH. Okay. She'll try. She wants to be a better person and all of that jazz. )

Wanted to vent, I'm guessing.
Look. Can't imagine how much it sucks to be in your shoes. Especially when you've got something good like what you've got with Glacius. Letting it take you over's only gonna ruin the good shit you got, though. Got to make the time left worthwhile.

( She might not know what it's like to live on a timer like that, but she knows all too well how much being consumed by something painful sucks so much out of your life. )

[tongueamok]

[Especially when you've got something good like what you've got with Glacius, she says. That is what makes it so much harder to accept his inevitable end these days -- that, and the fact he might have been pushing himself toward it all along without knowing.

He'd tried so hard to avoid it, too. He worries not for himself, but for him.]

Would you watch over him if I were to vanish one day?

[He knows the likely answer, but sometimes, he needs reassurance.]

[dedikated]

( She watches over Glacius even now, in her own way. But Kate doesn't need to say that. She replies simply, instead: )

Yes.

[tongueamok]

Thank you.

[That's all he has to say for now. He just hopes that Kate doesn't have to watch over Glacius one day... though given the way things tend to work in Hadriel, he's not optimistic about that.]