voice test; homeless

[honorher]

Are you sure you want to do this? I mean, I'm not against it, but you don't really know that much about me. I could be a murderer for all you know.

Figuratively speaking. Literally speaking too, maybe. I just think that maybe you shouldn't get ahead of yourself. Don't get set in ideas or beliefs that could change really soon. That's dangerous.

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[avoirfaim]

[Have a smile, Abigail, one that's meant to be comforting.]

Abigail, you decide who you are, and no one else. Whatever you choose to present to the world, your mundane included, is what they will believe to be the truth. It does not need to change unless you want it to.

[honorher]

Are you only say that to protect yourself?

[avoirfaim]

If I were, I would not be doing a very good job.

[honorher]

Protecting yourself?

[avoirfaim]

If I were trying to protect myself, would I not try to assure that I know you better than you know yourself?

[Which, of course, he's still doing, but there are smarter ways to do that than being direct.]

[honorher]

Not necessarily. You could be trying to convince me that what I did doesn't define me. That whatever I say is right is right, and that means your definition of me doesn't matter.

[avoirfaim]

[Another smile, a different one. You continue to impress him, Abigail.]

I am not only saying that to protect myself. [Repeating and clarifying is, of course, its own way of saying that she has a valid point.] On the contrary though, I would say that what you did may very well come to define you. How it defines you, now that is up to you.

[honorher]

Hm. [She looks at him a moment, and then shrugs.] I guess as long as I don't become a serial killer, everything's fine, right?

[Her smile's a little bit too nervous to be genuine.]

[avoirfaim]

Correct, everything's fine.

[And his smile is calm, without a single twitch or insecurity, a well smile well trained to be reassuring despite the lies behind his teeth.]