[ That chair has wheels. Whenever Duke sits in it he has to push himself by the heels at least once across the office, which is nothing about how Duke is a fidgety person and everything to do with the faces Nathan makes.
Just now, however, his features slant into something like--not amusement, exactly, but its cooler cousin. A person's sense of humor has to be skewed pretty dark to appreciate that that wouldn't have been the worst thing to happen to him on the Mirror Barge, but then--it's pretty hard to survive around here, let along thrive, without one of those.
(He hasn't talked to Raven since they all came back, and he's not sure he ever will. There are thresholds he'll get over, and ones he won't.) ]
Yeah? Like what?
[ His own chair is behind his desk, so he tows it to one side and sits on its edge, knees apart, hands dangling between them. The cookie he tries turns out to be cinnamon; that one he can recognize by smell. ]
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Just now, however, his features slant into something like--not amusement, exactly, but its cooler cousin. A person's sense of humor has to be skewed pretty dark to appreciate that that wouldn't have been the worst thing to happen to him on the Mirror Barge, but then--it's pretty hard to survive around here, let along thrive, without one of those.
(He hasn't talked to Raven since they all came back, and he's not sure he ever will. There are thresholds he'll get over, and ones he won't.) ]
Yeah? Like what?
[ His own chair is behind his desk, so he tows it to one side and sits on its edge, knees apart, hands dangling between them. The cookie he tries turns out to be cinnamon; that one he can recognize by smell. ]