[ That's interesting. She's never heard him quite like that before, at least not outside of the Mirror Barge, and it has her full attention in an instant.]
Wasn't my plan in the first place. What's going on?
Bastard stole my pictures and map, and set 'em on fire. For no damn reason.
[He hasn't told her how much those things mean to him. How could he? She has no one left, her world has been torn to shreds. But it's in the small things, the way he'd hung those things up, the care he'd taken with the map.]
My mother. My father. Mary. Dutch, Hosea and I, a long time ago. A dog I used to have.
The map's for New Hanover, Lemoyne, West Elizabeth and Ambarino. [He's trying very, very hard to remain sensible right now. And he's trying very hard not to thank her on her knees - both for what she's doing as for the fact that she's doing it at all, for him.]
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Wasn't my plan in the first place. What's going on?
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[And then, firmly:]
Sure sounds like something's going on, though.
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[He hasn't told her how much those things mean to him. How could he? She has no one left, her world has been torn to shreds. But it's in the small things, the way he'd hung those things up, the care he'd taken with the map.]
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God fucking damnit, William.]
I doubt that. He took my maps too, when I first got here, and he didn't burn them. Sit tight, I'll go handle him.
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[He's pacing the halls, but stops walking now.]
That little prick - I already told Harry to get a handle on him. [Okay, he still broke in and shot you, Morgan.]
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[Harsh, maybe, but true.]
What's the map of? What are the photos of?
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The map's for New Hanover, Lemoyne, West Elizabeth and Ambarino. [He's trying very, very hard to remain sensible right now. And he's trying very hard not to thank her on her knees - both for what she's doing as for the fact that she's doing it at all, for him.]
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What's the dog's name? What was your mother like?
[It'll help, even if it seems strange.]
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[He could get it if she wanted to know to check if she had the right picture, but how would that help?
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Don't worry about it. I'll just make something up, then.
[Or just embellish something of her own, just to sell the feelings. William's good at picking out lies.]
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She died when I was just a kid, Tess. I don't half remember her, so that photograph's all I got.
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Let me know.
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