"Yes," he laughed, "She knows. I told her long before she allowed me to sit with her and attempt to test her limits of concentration."
A head tilt. "Ah, that's easy to say, but those who would pervert such a thing...." his eyes narrowed. "One of the first things I learned here was the true depths of depravity of the word: fuck. A most violent, vulgar, reprehensible rape. While it's encouraging to know such a thing is so taboo, even the word representing it is despised, to know that romantic intercourse and such pleasures can be so commonly distorted from their original purpose, is also disconcerting."
How does he explain it?
"It may not be an alternate version of your lover, or any lover at all. Then again, who can say what such a strange alternate versions of events will hold, yes? The trick is not to be so confounded by life's wounds to miss out on an alternate life's enjoyments. Seize them, while you can."
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A head tilt. "Ah, that's easy to say, but those who would pervert such a thing...." his eyes narrowed. "One of the first things I learned here was the true depths of depravity of the word: fuck. A most violent, vulgar, reprehensible rape. While it's encouraging to know such a thing is so taboo, even the word representing it is despised, to know that romantic intercourse and such pleasures can be so commonly distorted from their original purpose, is also disconcerting."
How does he explain it?
"It may not be an alternate version of your lover, or any lover at all. Then again, who can say what such a strange alternate versions of events will hold, yes? The trick is not to be so confounded by life's wounds to miss out on an alternate life's enjoyments. Seize them, while you can."