[ The elevator ascends smoothly upwards, dinging past the floors which are of no consequence to their ultimate destination -- Irving's lost track of how many have gone by now, let alone how many still remain -- but his pale eyes remain fixed on Cheol-gang's intensely focused dark ones, keeping Irving so pinned where he stands it feels like everything around them is completely still.
This man is a stranger to whom Irving owes no time, respect, nor loyalty to (let alone anything else), yet still he radiates authority and leadership in a way Irving remains sorely lacking here in Duplicity-- truly an anchor, a port, amidst an otherwise turbulent, choppy sea; a reprieve from the immense pressure Irving's felt since he first arrived to be the sort of leader Jopson and Hickey need him to be here, the leader he so greatly wants to be for them but doesn't remotely know how to yet.
So maybe Irving does owe Major Cho that: deference and gratitude, for making him feel slightly less like he's bearing all that weight and completely alone.
He parts his lips as if to speak, then closes them; opens them again, if only to idly run his tongue out over the dry, sensitive skin. ]
You wish to show me. [ His voice is still quiet, somehow gentle and challenging both at once. ] So show me.
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This man is a stranger to whom Irving owes no time, respect, nor loyalty to (let alone anything else), yet still he radiates authority and leadership in a way Irving remains sorely lacking here in Duplicity-- truly an anchor, a port, amidst an otherwise turbulent, choppy sea; a reprieve from the immense pressure Irving's felt since he first arrived to be the sort of leader Jopson and Hickey need him to be here, the leader he so greatly wants to be for them but doesn't remotely know how to yet.
So maybe Irving does owe Major Cho that: deference and gratitude, for making him feel slightly less like he's bearing all that weight and completely alone.
He parts his lips as if to speak, then closes them; opens them again, if only to idly run his tongue out over the dry, sensitive skin. ]
You wish to show me. [ His voice is still quiet, somehow gentle and challenging both at once. ] So show me.