Oh, there is no "putting up with" anything at all, my dear.
[—is the safe answer he's learned to give. For as long as he can remember, Hob's clumsy way of wording things has often resulted in misunderstandings. It tends to take a good long while of knowing someone before he learns their patterns, before he understands them enough to say the correct things, behave in the correct manner, to keep the peace.
But not with Rue. Certainly, upon their first meeting, their communications were fraught with misapprehensions. But Rue has since taken it upon themself to gently, patiently teach him, to walk him through conversations and learn the unspoken cues people tend to use, so he won't be left with his foot in his mouth quite so often.
And thank the spirits they did. It has made for very harmonious spousal cohabitation.]
Were it not for your considerable talents, we would neither have settled in peace as easily as we did, nor indeed have found our way back to each other that fateful Bloom. Certainly not by my doing. No, of all your talents, beloved, your tongue is by far the greatest. [hehehhe,]
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[—is the safe answer he's learned to give. For as long as he can remember, Hob's clumsy way of wording things has often resulted in misunderstandings. It tends to take a good long while of knowing someone before he learns their patterns, before he understands them enough to say the correct things, behave in the correct manner, to keep the peace.
But not with Rue. Certainly, upon their first meeting, their communications were fraught with misapprehensions. But Rue has since taken it upon themself to gently, patiently teach him, to walk him through conversations and learn the unspoken cues people tend to use, so he won't be left with his foot in his mouth quite so often.
And thank the spirits they did. It has made for very harmonious spousal cohabitation.]
Were it not for your considerable talents, we would neither have settled in peace as easily as we did, nor indeed have found our way back to each other that fateful Bloom. Certainly not by my doing. No, of all your talents, beloved, your tongue is by far the greatest. [hehehhe,]