They will have to get closer. Barnaby apparently isn’t even bothered by the closeness or the near physical contact. Maybe he’s gotten over the puppet thing, or maybe he’s just pretending to be more composed than he usually is. Meanwhile, Adam is just analyzing the distance and determining that whoever this is is very uncomfortable with his presence. He’ll have to use that to try to get them to leave quicker.
“Hmm. You haven’t been one for caution as far as in our interactions,” he says with a bit of a smile. Not exactly a joke, but the acknowledgement of one.
The more he puts it together, the more he thinks he knows what this is about. This is the one Barnaby mentioned in passing, when Adam had forced him to talk about the strange things possible in this castle. They were the one that held Barnaby’s strings, weren’t they? It makes sense, with the way they seem distant but concerned. The backhanded compliment of sorts is the final straw. Adam ponders if he wants to try to use this to his advantage, and eventually decides to take a risk.
“Perhaps. But no amount of kindness will repair the damage, will it?”
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Good guess, Chara, but no, Barnaby hasn’t gone that far.
Date: 2017-05-18 02:33 am (UTC)“Hmm. You haven’t been one for caution as far as in our interactions,” he says with a bit of a smile. Not exactly a joke, but the acknowledgement of one.
The more he puts it together, the more he thinks he knows what this is about. This is the one Barnaby mentioned in passing, when Adam had forced him to talk about the strange things possible in this castle. They were the one that held Barnaby’s strings, weren’t they? It makes sense, with the way they seem distant but concerned. The backhanded compliment of sorts is the final straw. Adam ponders if he wants to try to use this to his advantage, and eventually decides to take a risk.
“Perhaps. But no amount of kindness will repair the damage, will it?”