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Post by greenie on Aug 7, 2012 23:17:48 GMT 10
Title: Exception Rating: PG Team: PD/SS Prompt: "As a rule, girlfolk ain't to be trusted" Word count: 229 Summary: He'd made it this far not trusting anyone.
Girlfolk ain’t to be trusted. He’d heard these words from just about everyone he’d told his tale to – and fair enough, given he was telling them he’d fallen into trouble over a pretty lass from another tribe and ended up here. It was a better story than the truth, and the advice didn’t hurt. He’d found out the hard way not to trust anyone, girlfolk included. He’d made it this far not trusting anyone, but as he eyed his new partner’s retreating back, he couldn’t help but wonder if things were about to change. In the time it had taken her to learn his name (“It’s pronounced Matthias, not Mattes. Gods, if you’re going to lie about your name, at least make sure you can say it,”), he became certain she was suspicious of him. And her dislike of him was strongly conveyed in the “Barbarian” he’d heard as she turned away. Mattes spat into the gutter. Two partners not trusting each other may as well be a death sentence in this part of the city. Something clearly needed to change. As a rule, girlfolk ain’t to be trusted. Gods, after all that advice, it was just his luck to be partnered with this steel-souled mot. He sighed as he started to follow her. Until he could change partners, she’d just have to be the exception to the rule.
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Post by wordy on Aug 9, 2012 10:48:53 GMT 10
This is brilliant! I like that Tunstall isn't quite telling the truth about his past, and I can totally imagine something like this happening in canon.
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Post by Seek on Aug 9, 2012 19:04:32 GMT 10
Agreed, that I like the bit where Mattes isn't really truthful about his past, but then again, it's not like most Dogs aren't rather circumspect about their past. Now I'm interested in how far the trust goes here--if eventually, it evolves into Clary not needing to know his past, or Mattes trusting her with it
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