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[Library Spam for Chromie]

[He's annoyed about not being able to change into his shadow form. It's limiting. He either has to amble on the ground or be stuck in the air. Bird don't exactly have dexterity, and land bound creatures don't move as fast as he'd like. No happy medium.

So he walks into the library in the human form. Hands are useful.

But the place is huge. Where the hell would he start?]

[Spam for Esther]

[He knocks on her door, and leans against the frame.]

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[spam] cw talk of unwanted physical attention

[beingdifferent]

I suppose, if they're rough. [Where are these questions coming from? They're bizarre. She stares at him for a few minutes more, realizes he seems just as bewildered as she does, and sighs.]

Come in.

[spam] cw forever

[a_favor_now]

[He doesn't comment on the invitation. He's fine with it. He just follows her inside, and then he wanders around her room a little restlessly.]

Explain it to me. In your words. If someone wanted to hug you or something, even if you didn't like that sort of thing, it wouldn't be bad?

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[beingdifferent]

[There's nothing much to her room - she's destroyed most of the accoutrements there, but her bed and bookshelves are still in decent shape. Her artwork hangs on the walls or is scattered around, nearly all of them violent or sexual scenes. She seems completely unrattled by them.]

To me? Of course not. That's only fair.

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[a_favor_now]

Fair how? What does that mean?

[He's not really paying attention to the artwork. Maybe he will in a minute, but he's not really focusing on the decore. He's focusing on his confusion and her answers.]

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[beingdifferent]

If you want to show affection, you're allowed to.

[However you want to, in her experience.]

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[a_favor_now]

[His brow draws together and he looks at her with those eerie red eyes of his sharply.]

And what if the person you want to be affectionate to doesn't want it?

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[beingdifferent]

[Those eyes are strange and unnerving, though Esther has done all she can not to react to them.]

Why wouldn't they?

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[a_favor_now]

Because I don't like it, that's why.

[He doesn't exactly snap, but he definitely growls.]

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[beingdifferent]

Then don't do it. What's the problem?

[spam] cw forever - assume there will be references to sexual abuse

[a_favor_now]

Are you purposefully trying to be confusing?

[He wouldn't put it past her.]

You just said it was allowed.

[spam] cw forever

[beingdifferent]

Not this time.

For you. You're allowed to do what you want.

[spam] cw forever

[a_favor_now]

Wait. What?

[He's just. So lost.]

How does that even make sense?

[spam] cw forever

[beingdifferent]

...You're a man. [She says this as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, and he should understand every cultural insinuation thereof.] You're allowed to do what you wish.

[spam] cw forever

[a_favor_now]

I'm not a man any more than you're a dog. And even if I was, that makes no sense. How are men allowed to do what they want, but what, women aren't?

[He may as well have a permanent question mark floating over his head.]

[spam] cw forever

[beingdifferent]

[Why are you asking her these things if you're going to nitpick the answers, DH?]

Men are meant to be in charge. That's the way it is.

[spam] cw forever

[a_favor_now]

Oh bullshit.

[Despite being an all around evil jerk, Dark Heart doesn't usually swear. The fact that he is, is pretty telling of how frustrated he is by this whole concept.]

I've never once met a girl that just sat back and obeyed orders, as useful as that would have been. Including you.

[spam] cw forever

[beingdifferent]

Have you ever tried touching one?

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[a_favor_now]

[He gives her annoyed, pointed look.]

Of course I have. And the last time, she was very keen on either stabbing me or strangling me.

[spam] cw forever

[beingdifferent]

Was I? [She was. But perhaps he noticed how much calmer she was when he changed to his current form.]