Harper
I was born in a big gray cloud screaming out a love song
Harper can read people far too well to not be able to tell that she is sick of his bullshit. But he is also a bored, dramatic, childish man who has far too little time to socialize these days. Plus, it just means he has to win her over! Perhaps he can even make her smile. Glancing at Alys again, that hope dies a little bit (she seems pretty scary) but his dogged determination refuses to quail under her withering glare.
If she thinks prying is annoying, she has met her match in someone who wears his heart in giant neon signs above his head. "Ah, my fiancee has been...gone." Missing, more like. That part is a little bit too painful to go into detail about. "My son is a bit shy, so I don't want to subject him to a big party. So we're just going to stay home! Plus, it gives the other council members the chance to go without leaving Torchline empty." Not that it would be defenseless exactly, but someone around to keep the smugglers and thieves in line on a day they would otherwise deem opportunistic would be good.
If she thinks prying is annoying, she has met her match in someone who wears his heart in giant neon signs above his head. "Ah, my fiancee has been...gone." Missing, more like. That part is a little bit too painful to go into detail about. "My son is a bit shy, so I don't want to subject him to a big party. So we're just going to stay home! Plus, it gives the other council members the chance to go without leaving Torchline empty." Not that it would be defenseless exactly, but someone around to keep the smugglers and thieves in line on a day they would otherwise deem opportunistic would be good.
among broken chords and unnamed cries -
what a place to come from
what a place to come from
