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captain baudin. ([personal profile] elegiaque) wrote in [community profile] therookery 2024-07-23 10:05 am (UTC)

( laying out the notes — meticulously written in fine, ladylike handwriting — she glances up and says, )

I don't think it's irrelevant that you should know what you're walking into, ( not unkindly, ) but I will say, I won't pretend I speak for everyone. My experience is fairly unique. But so's yours, so—

( her shrug is elegant. )

You're getting a lot of my opinions, you haven't got to apologise for actually bothering to have a conversation with me about them.

( fundamentally: everything they're talking about is how gwenaëlle has seen the world. to her, it feels of a piece, not a diversion but a continuance. in her experience, pressingly relevant that those from worlds where the elven experience is so vastly different begin to get a feel for what they should expect, here. )

A lot of these notes here, ( which are, in the earliest parts, signed lady gwenaëlle vauquelin and not captain gwenaëlle baudin, ) specifically address the anchor, and mine is also somewhat unique among them. But is there a particular thing that you're interested in?

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