Ivar likes it when Dodger is close up against him, foreheads pressed together. There’s something about the man that puts him both on edge and makes the fury in his head relax all in the same moment. He supposes that’s what love does to a man like him. “If the answers were easy, you wouldn’t be here right now talking to me.”
Not that Ivar has got any wise words to offer. He’s not a seer or anything like that, to dispel words of advice when anyone came asking. He’s just got the gift of reading people and being able to know Dodger very well. Easy to read, this one was, even if the book was boring. “Because part of you wants to be someone different. Someone who didn’t get forced into the life you did.” He traces the tip of one finger ever so lightly over the scar that runs across Dodger’s nose.
He’s seen those memories of his life growing up and a version of Dodger that had turned out very different than the man who stood in front of him. It wasn’t that hard to realize it only took a few simple twists and turns for his life to have gone completely off-track from what it could have been. “And those two parts of yourself are so wildly different you can’t find a way to reconcile them together.”
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Date: 2020-05-24 08:18 am (UTC)Not that Ivar has got any wise words to offer. He’s not a seer or anything like that, to dispel words of advice when anyone came asking. He’s just got the gift of reading people and being able to know Dodger very well. Easy to read, this one was, even if the book was boring. “Because part of you wants to be someone different. Someone who didn’t get forced into the life you did.” He traces the tip of one finger ever so lightly over the scar that runs across Dodger’s nose.
He’s seen those memories of his life growing up and a version of Dodger that had turned out very different than the man who stood in front of him. It wasn’t that hard to realize it only took a few simple twists and turns for his life to have gone completely off-track from what it could have been. “And those two parts of yourself are so wildly different you can’t find a way to reconcile them together.”