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[patterns_bloom]

Alana Bloom takes a long time to screw up her courage. She tells herself that she's only leaving a note--just an inquiry, really--and eventually gathers her wits and figures out what she wants to say.


To whom it may concern,

My name is Alana Bloom, and I have frequently suffered harassment at the hands of one Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He is from my world and often tortures me about events from there that occur in his timeline--specifically my future. Does this count as outside business?

I appreciate any advice you care to impart on this matter. Thank you for your kind attention and quick response.

Dr. Alana Bloom

After she drops the note off at the bar, Alana takes a seat there. Bar offers her a latte, and she sips at it gratefully while waiting for someone from Security to respond, her knee jiggling.

[OOC: Open to all, and open forever.]

Comments

[the_cupbearer]

He really doesn't. It's just a fact of life.

"Because I find pain arousing in a way joy isn't. Happiness is gentle and soft and though it twists the heart you stop feeling the sharp edges, the surprises after a while. Pain, you don't. I like people who don't look at me like I'm insane when I ask them to give it to me."

[patterns_bloom]

"Of course. No one likes being looked at like that," Alana says, not unkindly. "Is that what you like so much about Dr. Lecter?"

[the_cupbearer]

"Among other things," he says, "Yes. He...appreciates what I am and what I know, and doesn't talk to me like I'm a child or an idiot. An awful lot of people manage one or the other. Or both."

[patterns_bloom]

"I see," Alana says, noncommittal. "As I'm sure you've been told countless times before, you and I are very different people."

[the_cupbearer]

"We very much are," he says. "What is it about the existence of my relationship with Hannibal that makes you do that? Keep telling me that we're quite different people."

[patterns_bloom]

Alana stares at him for a few moments, unblinking. "Well, that you want a relationship with him, for one," she says. "And the nature of your relationship is different from any relationship I would wish to have, with anyone. I... I don't feel much like going into detail about that. I would think the answer would be obvious."

[the_cupbearer]

"Considering that I find him attractive, that he's willing and able to take me up on that..." he shrugs.

[patterns_bloom]

Alana sighs. She abandons her latte, stands, and straightens her skirt. "I can't find it within myself to be happy for you quite yet," she says. "Goodbye, Ganymede. Take care of yourself, won't you?"

Then she starts crossing to the stairs.

[OOC: Fade here? Thanks for the thread!]