linemanJohn "Quirkless" HwangDate: 2024-11-28 02:09 am (UTC)
He flicks the screen. Like a pendulum it swings into her space, his, hers again, before finally settling back into the no man's land between them. Emoting by proxy, touching by proxy—so Maggie knows he's smiling and thinks her terse, blunt answer is funny, because he won't transgress the physical barrier between them to otherwise let her know. The divider is a kind of rule.
"That's not very 'phat' of you," John replies with mock solemnity. "I thought it was interesting that 'believing in God' is presented as the opposite of 'owning a gun.' But I guess having a gun makes a person a kind of god."
He flicks the screen again, trying to goad her into a bigger response. Maggie laughs like a wild animal. Absently he thinks how he'd like to that laugh again before she moves out.
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"That's not very 'phat' of you," John replies with mock solemnity. "I thought it was interesting that 'believing in God' is presented as the opposite of 'owning a gun.' But I guess having a gun makes a person a kind of god."
He flicks the screen again, trying to goad her into a bigger response. Maggie laughs like a wild animal. Absently he thinks how he'd like to that laugh again before she moves out.