You answered that you have - hm - attractions, if I am to understand your rather...elliptical statement correctly. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you actually want them, or want to act on them.
[ He rotates the bottle of maple mead between his hands and shrugs. ]
I knew a soldier once - a man with a perfectly normal drive. But he'd spent too much time out in the field, you understand - and the field had been too poisoned a place - and so he couldn't allow himself that vulnerability. Never touched, never was touched. To like does not mean to indulge.
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[ By gives a small gesture of his hand. ]
You answered that you have - hm - attractions, if I am to understand your rather...elliptical statement correctly. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you actually want them, or want to act on them.
[ He rotates the bottle of maple mead between his hands and shrugs. ]
I knew a soldier once - a man with a perfectly normal drive. But he'd spent too much time out in the field, you understand - and the field had been too poisoned a place - and so he couldn't allow himself that vulnerability. Never touched, never was touched. To like does not mean to indulge.