Beauty-beast 38: The Right Way

[aldersprig]

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“Ctirad.  Ctirad, my darling.”  A click; the screen went blank.  Another moment; there was a hand over his eyes, another hand on the back of his neck.  “Ctirad. Hear me.”

He swallowed.  He could breathe.  “I. I hear you, sir.  I hear you. Master.”

“No, my darling.  Not that. Your sir, I will take that.  But Master is a title I haven’t earned, not from you.”

That was strange enough to shake a bit of the fog away.  “Sir?”

“Ah, well.”  Timaios’ tone was… rueful?  “I did say I’d accept that. Ctirad.  I’m going to move my hands. Can you tell me what happened?”

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Comments

[sauergeek]

Timaios wins a lot of points for refusing to let Ctirad call him Master right now.

And he did a remarkably gentle job of breaking Ctirad out of whatever fugue state he'd fallen into on that picture. I hope he can get more information on that person by asking someone other than Ctirad. I wonder if whoever that was is also tied up in Ctirad's memory loss? If so, that's going to be yet another land mine to deal with along the way.

[clare_dragonfly]

Hmm, I think Timaios is going to have to get Ctirad to talk about his reaction to that guy eventually. But I'm glad it's not now, and I like that he doesn't even suggest it.

[aldersprig]

Yeah, it’s not the time yet. But it might be soon.

[aldersprig]

Timaois is trying very hard to be a good owner. And that means NOT being a master there.