[He reads that and rolls his eyes mightily before writing back.]
Yeah, well, it was a lovely time with Bucky. Loveliest night I've had with someone since I got here.
[It was miserable and cut him down to the core with Bucky's brutal honesty about the broken trust between them. But Renart's never going to hear that from him. He'll tease back, instead.]
And I haven't had a single thing to do with Tintin. All I did was send him a belt buckle to get him to help with the world-hopping thing.
If you don't want me being rude, don't imply I've been getting on a little too nicely with one of my best mates.
I honestly have no idea what's on with Tintin. I've written to him twice. If he's anything like Zephyr, the people in Ajras picked out what he looks like. I do like his jumper.
Like a brother, yes. And I can tell you I'm really not into incest.
It's bloody strange, yeah. He looks like he could be my nephew. I'm half expecting my sister Harry's over in Ajras at this point and wanted really bad for me to be there, too.
We aren't as bad as them, but no, we don't get on, particularly. We're very different people.
[It's polite and perfunctory. Renart might note that John's writing has gotten sharper, the lines deeper. They point toward not liking the direction of this conversation.]
Unfortunately, it's too idealistic to think otherwise.
Three brothers and two sisters in my litter. My mother obviously had litters other years, so I had a number of other siblings and half-siblings I never met.
Not really. Foxes are mostly solitary unless family is involved. We only live in burrows when we have kits, sometimes we're monogamous, and occasionally adult daughters will stay with their mothers to help raise future litters.
[She should leave a book on fox behaviour at his house sometime.]
[It's still not quite answering his question, but John was more making a point than actually asking about vulpine behavioral characteristics. He doesn't actually care all that much.]
It's a shame you didn't get more time with your own family. But I suppose that's just the way of it for foxes. But to go back to the point, Tintin. Not sure. He seems like a nice kid, though. Bloody terrifying the way he jumps around one high places, though. Don't suppose he can really get hurt, but he looks like a little kid, you know?
[That first part is scratched out to the point of being nigh illegible and turned into a doodle of a snake at the top of the page. She might be able to make it out if she stares at it for a long while. But John draws snakes along the edges of the rest of the paper with random words in them to throw her off of that.]
I'm pretty sure most kids don't sit on top of bulletin boards. Did you end up doing something for that gift he was putting together for Zephyr?
[Yeah she's just... staring, a bit, at those snakes. And then squinting, because John is an adult and adults don't usually doodle cute things when writing letters to other adults. That plus the lack of any comment about his childhood has her stumped.]
I drew a picture of him playing his music for Zephyr. He's very talented, so writing a song seemed like an obvious choice. Did you?
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If you've received some sort of unmarked gift, it really wasn't from me.
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[She's teasing you, bro.]
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Yeah, well, it was a lovely time with Bucky. Loveliest night I've had with someone since I got here.
[It was miserable and cut him down to the core with Bucky's brutal honesty about the broken trust between them. But Renart's never going to hear that from him. He'll tease back, instead.]
And I haven't had a single thing to do with Tintin. All I did was send him a belt buckle to get him to help with the world-hopping thing.
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[That's a bit of a blow to her ego.]
Are you sure? The resemblance is uncanny. Even his jumper was like yours.
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If you don't want me being rude, don't imply I've been getting on a little too nicely with one of my best mates.
I honestly have no idea what's on with Tintin. I've written to him twice. If he's anything like Zephyr, the people in Ajras picked out what he looks like. I do like his jumper.
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[It's putting a damper on her picturing them as a couple.]
So it's really only a coincidence? You realize it's still extremely strange.
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It's bloody strange, yeah. He looks like he could be my nephew. I'm half expecting my sister Harry's over in Ajras at this point and wanted really bad for me to be there, too.
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You have a sister? Is she nice?
cw: allusion to alcoholism
She tries to be sometimes.
[When she's sober.]
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[It's polite and perfunctory. Renart might note that John's writing has gotten sharper, the lines deeper. They point toward not liking the direction of this conversation.]
Mostly keep in touch via my blog back home.
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That is too bad. Siblings should be close.
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Did you have siblings as a regular fox?
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Three brothers and two sisters in my litter. My mother obviously had litters other years, so I had a number of other siblings and half-siblings I never met.
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[She should leave a book on fox behaviour at his house sometime.]
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It's a shame you didn't get more time with your own family. But I suppose that's just the way of it for foxes. But to go back to the point, Tintin. Not sure. He seems like a nice kid, though. Bloody terrifying the way he jumps around one high places, though. Don't suppose he can really get hurt, but he looks like a little kid, you know?
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That would require my mother to care.[That first part is scratched out to the point of being nigh illegible and turned into a doodle of a snake at the top of the page. She might be able to make it out if she stares at it for a long while. But John draws snakes along the edges of the rest of the paper with random words in them to throw her off of that.]
I'm pretty sure most kids don't sit on top of bulletin boards. Did you end up doing something for that gift he was putting together for Zephyr?
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I drew a picture of him playing his music for Zephyr. He's very talented, so writing a song seemed like an obvious choice. Did you?
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No. I don't much care to pay homage to the person keeping us here.
[Which is probably going to start a fight, but there it is.]
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Or - and I'm just throwing this out there - or you could have done something nice for Christmas for two children.
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I gave him ideas for gifts. I just didn't feel compelled to participate.
[He's not settling. He will never settle here. And he will not bend and start loving Zephyr.]
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