mayfairmonster: Made for me, please don't take! (Discussion; Negotiation; Smoking)
Dorian Gray (The Confessions of Dorian Gray) ([personal profile] mayfairmonster) wrote 2022-04-11 02:59 am (UTC)

There's something I ought to add to it. [Reflexively, Dorian rubs at his wrist through the sleeve covering the spot that last night had been coated in dried blood.] But I don't think I need to, in your case.

[Which is a strange realization, that he might feel so willing to extend this kind of trust where one of his most deeply-held secrets is concerned. But it feels right.]

People not knowing about this part of my life is a convenience for me-- and it's also a safeguard where some supernatural elements are concerned. I think you understand what I mean by that. [After all, Larus had told him directly that he shouldn't let the city use this part of his life against him.

If only there were a way to be assured it wouldn't.
]

Can I trust you with this without putting it down in ink? [With this man, he's finding that he would much rather have it this way than as part of a legal mandate.]

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