[She speaks around a mouthful of food, but the words are mostly intelligible, even as she continues to avoid eye contact and instead focus her attention largely on her microscope, preparing the next slide with the hand she hadn't been handling ham with.
She knows he's just trying to be helpful- they were always just trying to be helpful. But science, discovery, breakthroughs... they didn't happen as soon as you needed them to. And she needed one now, soon, before the rest of her fellows working on the project in their own house arrest locations went mad and became useless, before anyone on their team succumbed to the virus-
Before anyone else ended up like Patroclus.]
Achilles would benefit far more from your support. There are things a daughter cannot do.
[She doesn't quite realize she referred to herself still by the false roles they'd taken in Woodhurst. It didn't matter. Achilles was grieving, hurting, and for all that she'd earned his respect in some ways she knew he likely could not see her as a true equal, not a fellow man in which he might confide.
no subject
[She speaks around a mouthful of food, but the words are mostly intelligible, even as she continues to avoid eye contact and instead focus her attention largely on her microscope, preparing the next slide with the hand she hadn't been handling ham with.
She knows he's just trying to be helpful- they were always just trying to be helpful. But science, discovery, breakthroughs... they didn't happen as soon as you needed them to. And she needed one now, soon, before the rest of her fellows working on the project in their own house arrest locations went mad and became useless, before anyone on their team succumbed to the virus-
Before anyone else ended up like Patroclus.]
Achilles would benefit far more from your support. There are things a daughter cannot do.
[She doesn't quite realize she referred to herself still by the false roles they'd taken in Woodhurst. It didn't matter. Achilles was grieving, hurting, and for all that she'd earned his respect in some ways she knew he likely could not see her as a true equal, not a fellow man in which he might confide.
Asher could do that. Maybe. She didn't know.]