[ They both know that. Lorca doubts she's being ignorantly disingenuous. The talent for using people that she denies is typically in getting people to use her. To whom does she owe it, this deft hand she has with duplicity?
That last spark of appreciation flickers out. He holds her eye without heat, so that she understands his stipulation, as she put it, is not a matter of his own satisfaction. Shrewdness does often overlap but not in this case. Not with her. ]
And I will give you one again. But until then, any Realignment you're assigned by citation will be carried out with me.
cw coercion. the opposite of coercion? the coercion snake eats its own tail
[ They both know that. Lorca doubts she's being ignorantly disingenuous. The talent for using people that she denies is typically in getting people to use her. To whom does she owe it, this deft hand she has with duplicity?
That last spark of appreciation flickers out. He holds her eye without heat, so that she understands his stipulation, as she put it, is not a matter of his own satisfaction. Shrewdness does often overlap but not in this case. Not with her. ]
And I will give you one again. But until then, any Realignment you're assigned by citation will be carried out with me.