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Jun. 1st, 2006 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_delmarIt's nice on Shadow, quiet. Work's good, even if he ain't sleeping much.
But not sleeping's better'n what happens when he sleeps.
He don't need anything more'n what he's got there, but sometimes when he stares at the ceiling - or the night sky - he can't help but think about a thing or two left behind that maybe he don't want got rid of.
So it could be that it's late one night (on Shadow, anyway, who ever knows how times match up) Ennis sneaks into the bar, headed back towards his (their) room.
He's quick, and he's quiet, but could be you could catch him.
But not sleeping's better'n what happens when he sleeps.
He don't need anything more'n what he's got there, but sometimes when he stares at the ceiling - or the night sky - he can't help but think about a thing or two left behind that maybe he don't want got rid of.
So it could be that it's late one night (on Shadow, anyway, who ever knows how times match up) Ennis sneaks into the bar, headed back towards his (their) room.
He's quick, and he's quiet, but could be you could catch him.
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:50 am (UTC)Rather incredulously: "Do you not care?"
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-04 03:51 am (UTC)"What are you doing, for Mrs. Reynolds?"
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-04 03:53 am (UTC)"Even when I did not care about anything much I cared what happened to me - I could not do much about it because the grown-ups could make me do things, but I cared."
Mary is ignoring the vast effort she expended in pretending not to care, for the moment. She is Older and Wiser now!
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:54 am (UTC). . . too bad he won't.
He nods, though, and listens.
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:55 am (UTC)And tilts her head a little.
And says, "Some time -- not now, 'course -- you want to find out what makes a space-goin' ship go?"
She'd taught Susan, a little.
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:56 am (UTC)Congratulations, Kaylee, you managed to distract him.
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:56 am (UTC)Thing to do or horse. She's not picky.
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Date: 2006-06-04 03:58 am (UTC)"Like bein' out in the fields."
duh.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:01 am (UTC)"If you do not care about things," she adds, sagely, "everything is only boring and dull - and there is not much point."
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:01 am (UTC)Amy stirs her tea unnecessarily and sips it.
All right, Ennis, your turn to think of something to say.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:02 am (UTC)His look says so?
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:03 am (UTC)Ennis sips his coffee and clears his throat.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:06 am (UTC)Which this one isn't, quite.
Fortunately, there's still tea.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:07 am (UTC)"Probably should get back. Only came for a few things."
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:07 am (UTC)Grown-ups can be so stubborn.
Earnestly: "It is really not very hard to care about things. If only you try a little - there are lots of things to care about."
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-04 04:10 am (UTC)and ... horses. Yeah, that's about all he's got there.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:10 am (UTC)"Well? How about it?"
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:12 am (UTC)Which explains why Ennis is moving oh-so-fast.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:13 am (UTC)His eyes are still wide, though. Much time 's he might be spending out on another planet or at the end of the universe, space's still Big and Scary and not quite real.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:14 am (UTC)"Horses are a good thing to care about," she agrees.
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:14 am (UTC)"Mr. Ennis, I rather clearly don't know what we're not talking about here, but, you really should talk to someone about it. Even if it's just one of the horses and you have the whole conversation in your head, though that wouldn't be what I would recommend as a first choice."
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Date: 2006-06-04 04:15 am (UTC)"Ain't much to say, s'all."