Even Rue can't hide the immediate flash of surprise that flickers across their normally composed face, confusion pinching at their brow. For as much as they've heard of all of the others from ADI, they've never explicitly heard of any of their coworkers having come from a different place in the timeline. Different planes and realms - that's nothing new to the fey, but people drawn in from past or unknown futures? That is endlessly fascinating.
And is it any surprise that the very specific way he says the word different, as if he chews it around in his mouth first, hits the owlbear like a punch in the chest. How strange, to have only just met but to already feel so seen by a stranger. Some of the stiffness in their posture disappears, expression softening to something more akin to their usual gentle countenance.
"You don't need to say another word. I'm quite used to feeling, ah, different as well." Speaking from one queer to another. "A shame that any of us who do not fit into their specific ideal makes us the ones who should be ostracized. But I'm grateful you are among kinder, more accepting people now."
Their hand slips away from guarding their paperwork to curl around their cup of coffee instead.
"The golden state? How wondrous. What is such a place like?"
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Even Rue can't hide the immediate flash of surprise that flickers across their normally composed face, confusion pinching at their brow. For as much as they've heard of all of the others from ADI, they've never explicitly heard of any of their coworkers having come from a different place in the timeline. Different planes and realms - that's nothing new to the fey, but people drawn in from past or unknown futures? That is endlessly fascinating.
And is it any surprise that the very specific way he says the word different, as if he chews it around in his mouth first, hits the owlbear like a punch in the chest. How strange, to have only just met but to already feel so seen by a stranger. Some of the stiffness in their posture disappears, expression softening to something more akin to their usual gentle countenance.
"You don't need to say another word. I'm quite used to feeling, ah, different as well." Speaking from one queer to another. "A shame that any of us who do not fit into their specific ideal makes us the ones who should be ostracized. But I'm grateful you are among kinder, more accepting people now."
Their hand slips away from guarding their paperwork to curl around their cup of coffee instead.
"The golden state? How wondrous. What is such a place like?"