I can imagine quite clearly that Marius Everett would have been most distressed at the notion of Dave Strider not knowing the proper way of asking a lady to dance. And so perhaps they did — dancing lessons for modernity lessons, an equal trade. And I suppose if that Dave Strider wanted to keep his lack of knowledge into the subject a secret, then there would be no one but Marius for him to practice with...
And so perhaps they did dance. Perhaps that's when Marius felt it too — that feeling of a song drawing to a close, and wishing so desperately that it wouldn't.
As for Meridiana and Davinia...well. That Meridiana would have invited Davinia to share her room and her bed far sooner than I ever did. I suspect that would have hastened things along, for Davinia's sake.
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But I'm glad that we ended up as we are. Not least of which because it means that all of those times when I was wrong — low-born, no class, foolish, worthless, narcissistic, wretched — I really...wasn't. It was only wrong because it was still only me and them; it wasn't yet me and you.
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And so perhaps they did dance. Perhaps that's when Marius felt it too — that feeling of a song drawing to a close, and wishing so desperately that it wouldn't.
As for Meridiana and Davinia...well. That Meridiana would have invited Davinia to share her room and her bed far sooner than I ever did. I suspect that would have hastened things along, for Davinia's sake.
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But I'm glad that we ended up as we are. Not least of which because it means that all of those times when I was wrong — low-born, no class, foolish, worthless, narcissistic, wretched — I really...wasn't. It was only wrong because it was still only me and them; it wasn't yet me and you.