( maker, what was that priggish elf's fucking name, she hasn't thought of him in years, )
Haldir.
( and if he's not paying close attention, then maybe that sounds like an answer to his question. )
You were. Maybe half a dozen years. ( there's a stilted awkwardness to her; picking her way through what she should and shouldn't say, what he's inevitably going to find out, what she would rather not lead with out of the gate when she's nothing and no one to him. ) In the Research division.
no subject
( maker, what was that priggish elf's fucking name, she hasn't thought of him in years, )
Haldir.
( and if he's not paying close attention, then maybe that sounds like an answer to his question. )
You were. Maybe half a dozen years. ( there's a stilted awkwardness to her; picking her way through what she should and shouldn't say, what he's inevitably going to find out, what she would rather not lead with out of the gate when she's nothing and no one to him. ) In the Research division.