Just for that, I'm making it thirty five. Some will be the size of a broom closet but it'll be excessive waste in the style of most merchers.
[ Does he think he'll ever need that many? Absolutely not. He's content with his attic room, despite it being three floors up. But he'd needed the quiet and to make a very direct point to the rest of the Slat's inhabitants: he wasn't an invalid. There were certainly some days he had the tinge of regret for being so stubborn. Namely when a storm started blowing in from the harbor. It made his knee ache something awful.
But that just meant once he did get up the stairs, he could grumble about it in peace. ]
Or a god, you never know. [ That's a thing. He has eyes and ears. And he's been living in the Barrel long enough—here people don't care nearly as much about who they're sleeping with. They don't have to be preoccupied with producing heirs or whatever awful leash the merchers have decided to hang themselves with. ]
Why stop at blue? I could have the gamut. [ Thinking about it makes him cringe, just a bit. So awful. ]
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Date: 2021-01-25 11:48 pm (UTC)[ Does he think he'll ever need that many? Absolutely not. He's content with his attic room, despite it being three floors up. But he'd needed the quiet and to make a very direct point to the rest of the Slat's inhabitants: he wasn't an invalid. There were certainly some days he had the tinge of regret for being so stubborn. Namely when a storm started blowing in from the harbor. It made his knee ache something awful.
But that just meant once he did get up the stairs, he could grumble about it in peace. ]
Or a god, you never know. [ That's a thing. He has eyes and ears. And he's been living in the Barrel long enough—here people don't care nearly as much about who they're sleeping with. They don't have to be preoccupied with producing heirs or whatever awful leash the merchers have decided to hang themselves with. ]
Why stop at blue? I could have the gamut. [ Thinking about it makes him cringe, just a bit. So awful. ]
It's your dinner.
[ So, they'll eat wherever she wants. ]