[Not having sick time come out of vacation time is a huge boon in a US job! That's awesome! (Here it's just a legal matter--they can't take sick days out of your vacation time. You're simply legally entitled to be sick without penalty.) And hahaha! It didn't even occur to me that it would be unexpected--maybe I'm too used to Aurus and what a weirdo he is lol!]
Aurus let his hand fall away and he sat back in his chair with a small sigh. Not a defeated sigh though. He could accept Charles' anger, his bitterness--he didn't even take those personally. He appreciated that he was opening wounds, treading on insecurities, and it didn't matter how lightly he tried to step when the terrain was so sensitive. That didn't mean he was going to be easily backed off now that he'd opened this door though.
"I don't believe that," he said frankly. "And I don't believe that I would judge you anywhere near as harshly as you judge yourself. There may well be differences in what your body now can do--I won't say otherwise, but I will not concede it as a matter of 'lack.'
"I won't concede that you are forever barred from erotic pleasure due to a stray bullet either, if only because it seems to me that someone should insist that you're wrong on that point.
"For sylvari, sex is a way of expressing joy and affection and living pleasure, and I don't think that a day goes by when someone doesn't invent a new way to have it. So if you're going to try and convince me that that chair you're in means the doors are all closed to you, I'm afraid you're going to have a very hard uphill battle."
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Aurus let his hand fall away and he sat back in his chair with a small sigh. Not a defeated sigh though. He could accept Charles' anger, his bitterness--he didn't even take those personally. He appreciated that he was opening wounds, treading on insecurities, and it didn't matter how lightly he tried to step when the terrain was so sensitive. That didn't mean he was going to be easily backed off now that he'd opened this door though.
"I don't believe that," he said frankly. "And I don't believe that I would judge you anywhere near as harshly as you judge yourself. There may well be differences in what your body now can do--I won't say otherwise, but I will not concede it as a matter of 'lack.'
"I won't concede that you are forever barred from erotic pleasure due to a stray bullet either, if only because it seems to me that someone should insist that you're wrong on that point.
"For sylvari, sex is a way of expressing joy and affection and living pleasure, and I don't think that a day goes by when someone doesn't invent a new way to have it. So if you're going to try and convince me that that chair you're in means the doors are all closed to you, I'm afraid you're going to have a very hard uphill battle."