[ You know he can't, even if he knows to suspect them now. You're so slippery, Clarice, and yet so sincere. Clearly you need another drawing modeling as one of his French girls. ]
Old Jack would have some experience on the matter...
A little momentum can [ A beat. 'Sometimes' is the immediate choice, but Dollarhyde avoids words with 's' as often as he can. ] mm... help. You're not new, are you?
[ Clarice is nothing like the bird she has in her name, and is also everything like it—a layer if brittleness trapped between mined coal and FBI-trained bitterness. Hannibal Lecter peeled back all three and left her out to air. ]
In that case, this is my first time here. Still learning the ropes.
[He arches his eyebrows slightly, considering her quietly.] There is a world of curiosity to fill, here. Caution is wise, of course - but there is nothing wrong with following an intrigue, and seeing where it leads.
[ She's a practiced cleverness, given the chance. Clarice has the stink of the mines to her when she remembers the screams, that she can never escape; it's her mark, and like Will Graham and his dogs, Clarice has her lambs too.
The plight is never-ending. ]
Sometimes the rabbit hole makes you take something from it too.
[It's part of what makes them fascinating to him: the practiced cleverness, the setting themselves apart from the rest of society in one way or another. Will with his empathy, Clarice with - well, best to get to know her properly, first.
Her comment makes him smile, just a little. Will had said something similar about dark places.]
'In a Wonderland they lie,/Dreaming as the days go by,/Dreaming as the summers die.' Alice was not quite the same after Wonderland.
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I was as ready as I could be, back then. I've learned a few things since.
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Yes, you did do your homework, of that I've no doubt. You work very hard, Clarice. And what did you learn?
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The lambs don't stop screaming.
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Do you think that is a shortcoming of yours or of the world?
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You told me—the letter&;mdash;it's the plight that drives me. The plight never ends.
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That's only my opinion.
my html died near the middle, there...
Crawford had warned me not to tell you anything, Dr. Lecter. Before we met.
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Clearly you need another drawing modeling as one of his French girls. ]Old Jack would have some experience on the matter...
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Dr. Lecter that's rude!Girls do what they have to in a world pitted against them from the start. She can learn. ]carefully sssslides him in
no, mr. dolarhyde :|
but clarice :c
You've been around here already. You know how all of this works...
[ A mild gesture of his hand to indicate their environment - this place that is everywhere and nowhere, a step beyond the Fourth Wall. ]
we'll never meet :c!
In that case, this is my first time here. Still learning the ropes.
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The plight is never-ending. ]
Sometimes the rabbit hole makes you take something from it too.
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Her comment makes him smile, just a little. Will had said something similar about dark places.]
'In a Wonderland they lie,/Dreaming as the days go by,/Dreaming as the summers die.' Alice was not quite the same after Wonderland.
[He arches an eyebrow.] Are you Alice?
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