larue: (can't keep lovin'  you like this)
𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 ([personal profile] larue) wrote in [community profile] wakingthedead 2016-07-12 03:14 pm (UTC)

[ This is him freezing -- much to his internal chagrin -- in the middle of a second sip from that cup when you ask the question.

Setting the mug down now. Offering a quiet nod. ]


We had a-- [ here is a telling pause as he tries to draw up the right word for it ] --conversation on the subject.

[ Here's the sight of him slouching some; a breath expelled thinly between his lips as he looks down at his drink.

It doesn't rest easy on his shoulders, this whole 'King' business. He's been a soldier all his life, from a family who has served since the first World War. He has been a captain of a squad and making hard calls is not something new to him. But to have people look to him -- to view him as something more than another soldier right alongside the rest of them? That's something he never wanted for himself. ]

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