"But I do get bored, you know. And I hate getting bored. Sometimes it takes so long for someone else to make a move. It gets so tedious."
No, it was true: he played the long game. The very long game. He played by weeks and months and years and generations. He could and would and had set things in motion whose ultimate results would not tumble into place until decades had passed and worlds had changed--indeed, not until some had passed from one world to another, and that does not always mean death. Take the Lady of Shadows, for an example. Or the Lady Gabrielle for another. And why not?
"Well. Congratulations. You've got me talking after all, haven't you?"
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Date: 2013-05-10 12:44 am (UTC)No, it was true: he played the long game. The very long game. He played by weeks and months and years and generations. He could and would and had set things in motion whose ultimate results would not tumble into place until decades had passed and worlds had changed--indeed, not until some had passed from one world to another, and that does not always mean death. Take the Lady of Shadows, for an example. Or the Lady Gabrielle for another. And why not?
"Well. Congratulations. You've got me talking after all, haven't you?"