[ He laughs easily as he says that. Playing the fop again - but the fop might not really acknowledge that topic shift, might not acknowledge the link between the exhaustion-over-late-nights and finding-a-way-to-fight. But Byerly doesn't fight it or question it. Just laughs it off.
You suspicious, paranoid fucker, Washington. Fine. Here I am. But you still don't know what I am, and you won't. But the slight - very slight - not-full-dishonesty...Well, he does get tired. ]
Find some snowbank and freeze in it. You'll find my corpse - [ He holds up his hands, crooked into talons, and makes a ghastly face. Then he drops his hands and laughs again. ] Sometimes it seems like that'd be easier than all this endless mucking out stables. I'd do just about anything to never see horseshit again.
[ And then he touches a forelock, and intones to Wash: ]
My earnest hopes that you will find a way to be useful here as you were before. With the leadership in this camp, it might not be easy.
no subject
[ He laughs easily as he says that. Playing the fop again - but the fop might not really acknowledge that topic shift, might not acknowledge the link between the exhaustion-over-late-nights and finding-a-way-to-fight. But Byerly doesn't fight it or question it. Just laughs it off.
You suspicious, paranoid fucker, Washington. Fine. Here I am. But you still don't know what I am, and you won't. But the slight - very slight - not-full-dishonesty...Well, he does get tired. ]
Find some snowbank and freeze in it. You'll find my corpse - [ He holds up his hands, crooked into talons, and makes a ghastly face. Then he drops his hands and laughs again. ] Sometimes it seems like that'd be easier than all this endless mucking out stables. I'd do just about anything to never see horseshit again.
[ And then he touches a forelock, and intones to Wash: ]
My earnest hopes that you will find a way to be useful here as you were before. With the leadership in this camp, it might not be easy.