So, do you think we're fated to be here and now, getting to know each other like this? How romantic.
[A light remark, just like before, but he's still staring at the book as he says it.]
Fate, though...ah. That would be the jurisdiction of the Lord. That's what I've always believed. If the Lord sows, man reaps.
[Finally, his eye flits up, meets the other's gaze through his glasses. It is a shame he put those on, he thinks. It's a shame not to see his eyes as they are, to see the full breadth of reaction in strange circumstances like this.]
Mm. [Another pause, expression a little distant, thoughtful, before he suddenly lifts the book to hold it up in a gesture to give it over.] I want you to take a look. For me, please.
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[A light remark, just like before, but he's still staring at the book as he says it.]
Fate, though...ah. That would be the jurisdiction of the Lord. That's what I've always believed. If the Lord sows, man reaps.
[Finally, his eye flits up, meets the other's gaze through his glasses. It is a shame he put those on, he thinks. It's a shame not to see his eyes as they are, to see the full breadth of reaction in strange circumstances like this.]
Mm. [Another pause, expression a little distant, thoughtful, before he suddenly lifts the book to hold it up in a gesture to give it over.] I want you to take a look. For me, please.