[ Matthias is locked onto the line of her sight and nothing else. But like that, it burns even more, knowing that something else is within his grasp and having only imagination to construct it. He could upend the box and shake the thoughts out furiously, rattling it as they cling to the sides with claws, cackling. ]
[ She is terrible. She makes him want to duck away from here into one of the smaller rooms, and ask for very, very outrageous things, that absolutely no one else he knows would even consider doing. It reflects poorly. ]
[ But there isn't a choice. They are here and he could not stop looking appreciatively at Nina any more than he could stop breathing. ]
Yes, it is.
[ He sighs, and his eyes drop down briefly, just to look at it, and then the very convenient locket, then back up at once, to her. ]
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[ She is terrible. She makes him want to duck away from here into one of the smaller rooms, and ask for very, very outrageous things, that absolutely no one else he knows would even consider doing. It reflects poorly. ]
[ But there isn't a choice. They are here and he could not stop looking appreciatively at Nina any more than he could stop breathing. ]
Yes, it is.
[ He sighs, and his eyes drop down briefly, just to look at it, and then the very convenient locket, then back up at once, to her. ]
It came to be there when the spirit touched me.