— the dove, she promised land, as she laid the branch right into my hand | OPEN.

[extramuralise]

Who: John Irving (extramuralise) + OPEN!
What: Catch-all for various threads (event-adjacent or otherwise), and everything else in between!
When: Throughout March
Where: Milton & surrounding areas.
Content Warnings: Repression, religion, repentance etc... you know, the usual. Will update as needed!




( closed & open starters! feel free to PM / plurk me @ reggiemantle for plotting. )

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[ He is pretty sure that he knows what the other is trying to tell him here.

Though maybe it'd be better if he wasn't. It's not even like the words sound all that strange, coming out of the other's mouth. It's all exactly like something Irving would say. Maybe back in their world he wouldn't even have thought too much about it, especially with everything else there was to think about.

But in this place - and with the knowledge gained from conversing about these things with people who come from very different places - it sticks out more to him. John Irving is admitting that he has had these thoughts and feelings, just as Billy suspected during their emotional linking. But he is also claiming it's something that happens to all people sometimes, and--

Is it? It's hard to tell for him, given that it's all he has ever known, but other people in this place seem to say the opposite. Not to mention that he has seen some men talk or act about women in a way Billy could never imagine they could if they felt the same things he did. There's no way it's a truly universal experience.

But thinking too much about that, fully thinking about that--

His lips are tightly pressed together. He looks a little less hostile in this moment, and more like he's wrestling with something - wondering if this is a path he wants to go down, given how much of a mess his head feels when he only thinks about it. ]

You are admitting you have had those feelings. [ It's the only thing he can say right now - both as an answer to the other's question, but also in bewilderment as the realization that he was right - and all that comes with that - is dawning upon him. ]