This post is William's IC inbox at ataraxion. You can drop network or action stuff that doesn't quite feel like it fits or warrants a post on the main communities in here.
I'm all right. [It's not exactly a lie. It's an extrapolative and necessary lie of omission. Private business. Special exceptions are made for deception where unrequited fancying is involved.]
i Would like you to charm my fish bowl
[It doesn't occur to him that sounds like a hilariously bad euphemism until too late.]
[He realizes five seconds later that that seems distant rather than distracted and. and he doesn't-- well that's not exactly what he wanted to convey, and so he debates and types and deletes and retypes and wonders what Remus meant by his emoji, exactly, besides presumably he was smiling at the time (which William could picture very clearly) (with problematic clarity, even) before settling on]
2/2
1/2
Having all these wizards at your beck & call but keeping a fish in a breakable bowl.
That's nearly neglect.
2/2
I just wanted to know if I was bothering you.
If you're all right, I'm all right.
no subject
i Would like you to charm my fish bowl
[It doesn't occur to him that sounds like a hilariously bad euphemism until too late.]
no subject
All right.
:)
1/3 after a short while because distracting heathers
2/3
3/3
:D