[This is Dorian "I'm a mage but I'm going to charge into the front lines and hit people with my staff" Pavus. It was a compliment.]
No. All my life, I have had the distinct pleasure of being the sole receptacle of my family's hopes and dreams, and the disappointing fate to dash them all to pieces. [He rolls a shoulder in a shrug.] I assume I am an only child simply because my parents loathed one another and were married simply to produce me, which they accomplished. No more need to copulate.
[And all that, it doesn't seem, bothers him to have said, even though he can't lie.] Iona, whom I mentioned before, is the first true friend I've made outside the Imperium, and, while elven, not human, is someone I would trust with my life, and with whom I would share anything. She's seen the very worst of me and her opinion has never wavered. I suppose she's something like a long-lost sibling, though I have little to compare it to.
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No. All my life, I have had the distinct pleasure of being the sole receptacle of my family's hopes and dreams, and the disappointing fate to dash them all to pieces. [He rolls a shoulder in a shrug.] I assume I am an only child simply because my parents loathed one another and were married simply to produce me, which they accomplished. No more need to copulate.
[And all that, it doesn't seem, bothers him to have said, even though he can't lie.] Iona, whom I mentioned before, is the first true friend I've made outside the Imperium, and, while elven, not human, is someone I would trust with my life, and with whom I would share anything. She's seen the very worst of me and her opinion has never wavered. I suppose she's something like a long-lost sibling, though I have little to compare it to.