[... 'actually want to see you'. That's weird in and of itself. Just one more thing that weirds him out about the turtle - the number of people in his life who are actually decent.
Not... not decent like Mettle or Veil or even Reptil (who'd been his previous bar for 'not a horrible person', because yeah, he's known too few in his life) but in their own ways...
He's tired of being suspicious. Tired of suspecting everyone's just out for themselves, that they have an ulterior motive and that they're going to screw him over. He's tired of lying, so tired he could choke on it.
How much can he ask people to prove before he buys it? When has Nita ever given him a reason to think she wasn't exactly as advertised? Still, there's a part of him that's always wary anyway. Once burned and all that.
He has his elbows on his desk, head in his hands very briefly as he musses up his hair.]
I don't know if that's such a good idea right now. I'm probably not good company.
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[... 'actually want to see you'. That's weird in and of itself. Just one more thing that weirds him out about the turtle - the number of people in his life who are actually decent.
Not... not decent like Mettle or Veil or even Reptil (who'd been his previous bar for 'not a horrible person', because yeah, he's known too few in his life) but in their own ways...
He's tired of being suspicious. Tired of suspecting everyone's just out for themselves, that they have an ulterior motive and that they're going to screw him over. He's tired of lying, so tired he could choke on it.
How much can he ask people to prove before he buys it? When has Nita ever given him a reason to think she wasn't exactly as advertised? Still, there's a part of him that's always wary anyway. Once burned and all that.
He has his elbows on his desk, head in his hands very briefly as he musses up his hair.]
I don't know if that's such a good idea right now. I'm probably not good company.
[It's not a 'no'...]