heirring: (rather clever)
Wysteria Poppell ([personal profile] heirring) wrote2018-09-09 12:39 pm

inbox.

[action + written + crystal]
coquettish_trees: (gossip)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-08 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ A hum. ]

I grant perhaps my husband's estate might put one in the frame of mind to think of an entirely different sort of auction.

[ She sips as well. ]

But to the last, are we not all reduced to our economic, social, or skill-based value when attempting to negotiate the gain of assets? It is not as if those attendant were not invited specifically due to what they might provide us, rendering them commodities as well.
coquettish_trees: (none of my business but)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-08 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Just so! It would hardly have done to invite them to the Gallows dining hall.

[ Sip. ]

Which is, I might point out, also Tevene.
coquettish_trees: (serious 1)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-08 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Truly one of the most disagreeable things about arguments with those one wishes to remain companionate with— or perhaps become companionate with again, should things have gone terribly awry—

[ That rather dire looking grimace implies she's remembering some of her own quarrels gone terribly awry. ]

—is being obliged to do so. Even when one feels themselves to have been perfectly in the right.

[ Blech. ]
Edited 2021-03-08 17:14 (UTC)
coquettish_trees: (none of my business but)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-08 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Difficulties with commodification, or was he obliged to spend the evening with a regrettable companion?
coquettish_trees: (oh really?)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-08 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Alexandrie raises her teacup in salute of this, the craftiest of plans. ]

But do you mean to say he expressed aggrievement in a way that did not give you the slightest idea of its origin? How entirely frustrating!
coquettish_trees: (beach hat 2)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-08 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You shall find me in complete agreement. There is never a situation in which seeking after further knowledge is not to the greatest advantage.

[ Her teacup pauses halfway between saucer and mouth. ]

Well, hardly ever.
coquettish_trees: (thinking)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-10 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Well. I suppose it is largely made disadvantageous by being at odds with someone else.

[ The cup completes its journey, and is set back down. ]

I have spent a great deal of time pursuing knowledge that another strongly prefers I not have, and I have sometime found the cost of that pursuit to myself or those I care for to far outweigh the benefit of whatever it is I gain by it.

A rare occurrence, for which I am most grateful, but it does mean I cannot rightly say seeking knowledge is never disadvantageous.
coquettish_trees: (genuine)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-10 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ But she's all smiles~ ]

Not lately. Or, not successfully. But we are forever being sent on missions to go and retrieve things from people we are at war with, and subsequently being captured by them, or having friends captured, and all other sorts of dreadful things that hardly belong at tea.

[ A look of apology, then. ]

Do forgive the digression into the less desirable aspects of our work.
coquettish_trees: (earnest smile)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-10 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Quite! We keep as merry an office as we might, given the circumstances of needing one, and I must say, I find my current position there far preferable to my previous. I do not envy him its responsibility.

I hope you have equally fine working conditions?
coquettish_trees: (sympathetic)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-10 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There we are.

Alexandrie tilts her head curiously. ]


I know it to have been rather fraught— we have discussed the subject of his being terribly frustrating on occasion— but I thought perhaps that had not precluded you from considering our Ambassador to be such a one.

Well, perhaps not rapport, but... [ A blink or two as she 'reconsiders'. ] He did seem quite agitated that you had quarreled.

[ Concern™ ]

Was it in true earnest, then?
coquettish_trees: (outside flowers)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-11 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Someday she should perhaps let Wysteria know that moving oneself from stormcloud to airiness is far more of a tell than staying cross. ]

In fairness, I learned of it due to my being unrelentingly inquisitive rather than his being indiscreet.

May I ask after the nature of the thing?

[ Alexandrie simply radiates the sympathetic energy of Steadfast Feminine Alliance. ]

If you should rather not tell me, I promise I shall only press once more and then cease.

Twice more at the outside.
coquettish_trees: (genuine)

[personal profile] coquettish_trees 2021-03-18 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
And if I were to be desirous of carrying such a torch?

[ She pre-emptively holds up a hand to forestall argument for the moment. ]

I know quite well how entirely infuriating he can manage to be on some subjects—most anything having to do with personal relationships, for example—

[ Sip. of. tea. for. emphasis.

Byerly.

She tilts her head and is softer: ]


But I also know him to only be quarrelsome in such earnest where he cares. Had it been simply to irk you, or of no true consequence, I should not have seen anything that would induce me to pry.

I do not mean that you must subject yourself to what would likely be the same disagreeable conversation in a different key, but I thought perhaps you might allow me to offer ambassadorial service of my own? As a favour to me, if no other reason pleases.

[ Pretty please with sugar on top? ]

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