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[in_theworks]

WRENCH

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[valeas]

( Emilia does not rush him. Patience is a talent she has not fully mastered, but she is much better than she once was. Biding her time, and not just with her schemes. This is difficult for him to say, and she is not without consideration for it. He doesn't finish, but he doesn't need to.

She gets the picture. )

It wasn't your choice.

( Not with Marcus, and not with her. With them, at the tower. She sounds regretful, though she is aware she is not at fault. Not with this. )

It should have been.

[in_theworks]

[Wrench shrugs]

Story of my life.

Like, I've got these other friends, back home -- Sitara and Josh. [Sitara's kind of the group mom. Josh is very much a little brother to him] Me and Sitara were out drinking, and these guys who are kind of dicks -- kind of our rivals -- showed up, and started riding my ass. And there was this barfight, and they broke the mask, and ...

[and Sitara'd had to get it off him, because it was sparking. and she'd helped him home and he'd started trying to fix it, and Josh had been there, and he hadn't realized it, and]

[yeah, he's never actually willingly shown someone his face. he might have gotten there with Marcus, with Sitara and Josh, but the choice has always been taken from him]

[valeas]

( So there have been more incidents like the one in the Tower.

... Well. Not exactly like the one in the Tower, nothing has ever been like it, but. )

That would be infuriating. It is not the same, of course. The wounds I've wished to conceal are not the physical sort. But and I understand the importance of a secret. ( If she hadn't withheld the fact she was a witch in Palermo, she would have burned to death.

She doesn't think Wrench needs to hide his scars and would see him no differently, but it doesn't matter, because Wrench does. )

[in_theworks]

It worked out? [Sitara and Josh didn't judge him like his real family, his blood family always had -- like most strangers always had. neither did Marcus] But yeah, it's -- yeah.

I don't know.

Still a sore spot or whatever, I guess.

[valeas]

I understand. I don't mean to ask again.

( Especially knowing this is still something of an open wound for him. Knowledge of such a thing can make them so vulnerable to each other. It allows them understanding, but at what cost? She thought she could trust Antonio. She thought she could trust her family.

She thought a lot of things. )