I dunno, I think I've got a pretty good eye for that sort of thing.
[ The thing about not being very charismatic is that it's easy to tell when someone else is -- a certain openness in the way Krouse carries himself, conversational and congenial even over text, the way that he can keep a conversation going and flash a smile at the right time every now and then. It probably doesn't seem like much to an ordinary person, but to someone like Riz, it's a skill he's had to cultivate rather than one that comes naturally to him, and even that cultivation's been a little rough. It's hard, connecting with people. But it's been easy during this conversation, even for him, so that's gotta mean something.
(The fact that he could just be connecting organically with someone -- that's not quite there.) ]
By factions, d'you mean like -- people who all know each other, or who're from similar worlds clustering together? [ Should he be worried about different factions? Wait, do he and the Bad Kids count as one? ] I guess that's to be expected, though it kinda sucks for anyone who's flying solo from their own world. [ He pauses. ] Their own variety of world.
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[ The thing about not being very charismatic is that it's easy to tell when someone else is -- a certain openness in the way Krouse carries himself, conversational and congenial even over text, the way that he can keep a conversation going and flash a smile at the right time every now and then. It probably doesn't seem like much to an ordinary person, but to someone like Riz, it's a skill he's had to cultivate rather than one that comes naturally to him, and even that cultivation's been a little rough. It's hard, connecting with people. But it's been easy during this conversation, even for him, so that's gotta mean something.
(The fact that he could just be connecting organically with someone -- that's not quite there.) ]
By factions, d'you mean like -- people who all know each other, or who're from similar worlds clustering together? [ Should he be worried about different factions? Wait, do he and the Bad Kids count as one? ] I guess that's to be expected, though it kinda sucks for anyone who's flying solo from their own world. [ He pauses. ] Their own variety of world.
[ All you Earthlings...! ]