if it doesn't burn a little
Weaver chuckles at that. ”You’d think people would just take it to get better.” Except she knows that’s not true, and probably even less so here. They would all be too stubborn to go see a healer in the first place, let alone take the medicine. In Halo, injuries were common and there was a level of ‘toughness’ in pretending you were fine. ‘Oh what, that? You mean that giant hole in my side? It’s nothing.’ ”I’m not sure that’s going to get any better here, but I promise, if I am required to drink something awful I will do it without complaint. Or well, much complaint.”
She shifts slightly, crossing her legs and growing increasingly comfortable leaning against Maea’s wall. ”You should be,” she says in a mock matter-of-fact voice. ”And I definitely have been,” she adds, her voice a bit teasing and suggestive, though not overly so. ”I am not sure you were ready for that side of me.” After all, though they may have gotten drunk together the first time, he’d been in a pretty dark place. Still was, even if he was working on it. He didn’t necessarily need to be distracted by her and her bad habits (which for all her talk, were largely uncommon things save for the drinking). ”Also, it’s really hard to find cigarettes around here,” she adds.
She shifts slightly, crossing her legs and growing increasingly comfortable leaning against Maea’s wall. ”You should be,” she says in a mock matter-of-fact voice. ”And I definitely have been,” she adds, her voice a bit teasing and suggestive, though not overly so. ”I am not sure you were ready for that side of me.” After all, though they may have gotten drunk together the first time, he’d been in a pretty dark place. Still was, even if he was working on it. He didn’t necessarily need to be distracted by her and her bad habits (which for all her talk, were largely uncommon things save for the drinking). ”Also, it’s really hard to find cigarettes around here,” she adds.
-- weaver
then what's the point in playing with fire?
