[ Brick smiles so Claret cannot help but do the same, an echo of the expression ripping across her face like rings caused by a carefully cast stone. The second son is so unlike the first that sometimes she wonders how it's possible that they'r even related. ]
If Tee had his way, I'd never go anywhere. [ It's more petulant than truly disgruntled. ] He'd keep me in his pocket if he could.
Titian loves Cerise, [ comes out of Claret's mouth before she means to actually say it and immediately she winces slightly as if hearing it out loud, spoken by her own voice, is too harsh for her ears. Not that it made it any less true but the Dukes have never quite managed to perfect the art of familial love. There was responsibility, yes; there was blood and the family name. There was passion and jealousy and anger and overprotectiveness, and maybe when taken all together it created something like love. But for some reason it sits oddly in Claret's chest, like all that sickness slowly killing her over the years.
(Maybe isn't the problem with Titian. Maybe the problem is her.)
After a moment, Claret tries to smile again at her brother, one hand reaching out to poke him once on the shoulder. ]
[ Brick feigns mortal injury, making a sort of oof noise as he falls one step back.
He loves his sister, it's true, and he loves Claret best because the rest of his siblings scare him, because they all have a certain madness but Claret's seems the easiest to handle. (The Duke madness that touched all of Red's children except him.) ]
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Don't think he'd say no t' anything you asked, sis.
picks at all the threads!!!!
If Tee had his way, I'd never go anywhere. [ It's more petulant than truly disgruntled. ] He'd keep me in his pocket if he could.
eats :v
It means he loves you, [ is all that he says, blinking once at his sister. ] He gets scared you'll get hurt. That's all.
b-but!!!!!
(Maybe isn't the problem with Titian. Maybe the problem is her.)
After a moment, Claret tries to smile again at her brother, one hand reaching out to poke him once on the shoulder. ]
You love me.
no buts :u
He loves his sister, it's true, and he loves Claret best because the rest of his siblings scare him, because they all have a certain madness but Claret's seems the easiest to handle. (The Duke madness that touched all of Red's children except him.) ]
You know I do. Don't mean Tish can't, too.