Magnus giving up at anything? You do know him, right?
(Though, to be fair, on cycle twelve they were still shiny and new to each other, and Lup and Taako particularly difficult to crack. Lucretia still remembers the pain of trying to speak to them at first: impossible to catch one without the other, having to be subjected to the little looks they'd swap lightning fast while you were talking. Only a bit intimidating.
Lucretia pretends to sigh, laying the back of her hand dramatically across her forehead.) I can't deny for even a second, Lup: I love the lot of you. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. (She ruins this little mocking performance by going a bit red in the face when Lup gives her a look that she knows all too well: that prying, deeply curious one that means she won't let what you've half-told her go until she hears the rest of it.)
Okay, okay, (she prefaces,) it was just– I dunno, we were drunk, all of us, and we had been on this planet covered in water for most of the cycle. It was called Haling Cove, but Magnus called it Pirate Bay instead and that stuck, it was stupid– anyway, I made a joke about... about skinny dipping and then Taako dared me to go for– uh, a swim, and said that he'd do it if I did and so I... did it. Except I didn't look before I leapt, and I forgot that Davenport had pulled the ship up earlier than evening for some– safety thing. (She shrugs, nonchalant.) So I fell roughly eighty feet and died the moment I hit the water.
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(Though, to be fair, on cycle twelve they were still shiny and new to each other, and Lup and Taako particularly difficult to crack. Lucretia still remembers the pain of trying to speak to them at first: impossible to catch one without the other, having to be subjected to the little looks they'd swap lightning fast while you were talking. Only a bit intimidating.
Lucretia pretends to sigh, laying the back of her hand dramatically across her forehead.) I can't deny for even a second, Lup: I love the lot of you. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. (She ruins this little mocking performance by going a bit red in the face when Lup gives her a look that she knows all too well: that prying, deeply curious one that means she won't let what you've half-told her go until she hears the rest of it.)
Okay, okay, (she prefaces,) it was just– I dunno, we were drunk, all of us, and we had been on this planet covered in water for most of the cycle. It was called Haling Cove, but Magnus called it Pirate Bay instead and that stuck, it was stupid– anyway, I made a joke about... about skinny dipping and then Taako dared me to go for– uh, a swim, and said that he'd do it if I did and so I... did it. Except I didn't look before I leapt, and I forgot that Davenport had pulled the ship up earlier than evening for some– safety thing. (She shrugs, nonchalant.) So I fell roughly eighty feet and died the moment I hit the water.