[ She jabs the brush in the air to mark her point, sending another tuft of fur to the floor. ]
Doing stuff that other people wouldn't do, or not the way they want you to do it, or wishing you'd done something a different way, or thinking ... or thinking anything-- That's not wrong. That's not stupid.
[She has to take a breath. Some of him is too close to home. She still falls into the same patterns.]
There are a lot of different ways to be smart.
[Some of the more industrious crows have started stealing wayward fluffs to line their nests. The hyenas snap lazily at them, but don't seem inclined to give chase. They have been pecked too many times before. She watches the menagerie for a while.]
Anyway. Archie won't hear about any of this from me. I'm sure he'll feel like an asshole and talk to you himself before I could even get the chance.
He's-- I love him? I love the guy. He's great in a lot of ways, but I don't think he's... Love that hurts like this isn't really something I think he can get. It looks different than it feels.
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[ She jabs the brush in the air to mark her point, sending another tuft of fur to the floor. ]
Doing stuff that other people wouldn't do, or not the way they want you to do it, or wishing you'd done something a different way, or thinking ... or thinking anything-- That's not wrong. That's not stupid.
[She has to take a breath. Some of him is too close to home. She still falls into the same patterns.]
There are a lot of different ways to be smart.
[Some of the more industrious crows have started stealing wayward fluffs to line their nests. The hyenas snap lazily at them, but don't seem inclined to give chase. They have been pecked too many times before. She watches the menagerie for a while.]
Anyway. Archie won't hear about any of this from me. I'm sure he'll feel like an asshole and talk to you himself before I could even get the chance.
He's-- I love him? I love the guy. He's great in a lot of ways, but I don't think he's... Love that hurts like this isn't really something I think he can get. It looks different than it feels.