As deeply as he wants to curl up under a bed somewhere, Sirius is too tense to let himself sag back against the lift wall or anything. Lessons are better if he thinks of them as a challenge, and that word--weakness--certainly helps to cast it in that light.
So.
Pointedly, he looks over at Mara. Thinking in direct words isn't natural, but nothing about this is natural anyways, and besides: everything has always come easily to him. This will, too.]
(There.)
[--As in, are you happy now, or-- well, maybe. Sort of. Forceful, like a door slamming, but a door slamming a very long ways away, down a long corridor, muted.]
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As deeply as he wants to curl up under a bed somewhere, Sirius is too tense to let himself sag back against the lift wall or anything. Lessons are better if he thinks of them as a challenge, and that word--weakness--certainly helps to cast it in that light.
So.
Pointedly, he looks over at Mara. Thinking in direct words isn't natural, but nothing about this is natural anyways, and besides: everything has always come easily to him. This will, too.]
( There. )
[--As in, are you happy now, or-- well, maybe. Sort of. Forceful, like a door slamming, but a door slamming a very long ways away, down a long corridor, muted.]