19centconstable | Case #57: Video

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Case #57: Video

[Thoughtful George in thoughtful pose with the usual but thoughtful accent says:]

This is a bit inspired by what Captain Rogers' said ...and also Captain Angua, but: do you feel that being here has changed you? Any you, that is. Wardens and inmates alike.

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The right...to...

And it went poorly?

It's dwarves. I'll explain sometime. There's a lot to explain.

Not exactly, but... I just don't think anyone understood anything, that's all. Not the way the people here talk about it, or the way you talked about it, which is exactly the point, isn't it? Being here changes things.

They're a good deal shorter. ...Is there more than that?

It does. I'm a bit embarrassed, really, of the way I used to think of some things.

That's sort of like saying, "women are a different shape, is there more to it than that?"

Oh? What sort of things?

[George very nearly says is there?, but stops himself just in time.]

Mostly ankles. But also of the sort of relationships two people of the same gender might have with one another.

Oh... yes, people are a bit more... open about that, here, aren't they? [She's never had a problem with it, but she certainly had never met anyone quite so ready to admit to it, before...]

But between Stildyne, and. [Buffy.] Things. [That time with Buffy.] Like that. It's hard to think much of it.

...did you say ankles?

And it isn't illegal.

I may have said ankles, yes.

...Are a... preference of yours, I take it.

I may still sometimes...consider ankles, yes.

Sometimes, I think your world's not all that different from mine.

But... did you--

[Oh ho, wait, this is so very private now]

My ankles?

They're really quite lovely. Both sorts.

[She probably should be more fazed by that, but she'd somewhat guessed that if he likes one, he'd like the other.]

You've seen rather a bit above the ankles, of course.