Bolton's Office Hours

[theoverseers]

[Want to chat with Bolton privately? Here is where you do it! Bolton's office hours will be held in conference room B in the library for approximately four hours in the morning several days a week. During that time the blinds will be drawn and that room will be off-limits unless you're there to talk to Bolton, though the other three study rooms will still be available for use.


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[curdle]

[ She readily accepts the handkerchief and starts dabbing her eyes, breathing in and out as deeply as she can -- using the same sort of technique he had tried to instill in her after she dreamed of Caleb, actually, which she finds hard to believe was only two weeks ago. She's trying to imagine the celebrations he's describing, to picture them in her mind while her actual line of sight fixes squarely on the table. ]

I should like to see it. [ She sort of sighs. ] There is so much I would like to see.

[ It hasn't occurred to her yet that he's implying more than one of them will leave here eventually any more than it's occurred to her what a Pride parade actually entails! But the first part, slowly, starts to set in. (The second can wait until like a full month after endgame happens, when she is actually physically at Pride. She'll get it someday.) ]

Say you that this will end while divers of us [ in English this sounds like a slightly truncated "diverse" and means... you know... multiple people ] yet live?

[theoverseers]

[His hand moves to rub her back gently while she breathes.]

You can. Someday, I hope you can.

[Her question catches him a little off guard and his hand stills.]

...It's possible.

[And with the power of hindsight you now know why he knows that it's possible, though he's reticent to say anything more.]