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Jean-Claude ([personal profile] sourdre) wrote in [community profile] barrayar 2020-07-10 12:04 pm (UTC)

So he hadn't been off the mark in his comparison to a new vampire after all.

Since he appears to understand the gravity of the infraction, Jean-Claude isn't about to insist on retaliation. They're not in a situation where he's forced to in order to keep face, and Jean-Claude values every opportunity he gets to use his own discretion on these matters. He doesn't take any pleasure in grinding someone into the dirt who is already remorseful. Though clearly, this is not, in lycanthropic terms, a submissive. Dominant preternatural types are always half-inclined to attack rather than apologize - Jean-Claude himself isn't immune from that instinct.

He continues to remain seated so as to appear unthreatening, leaning back again. "Peace. You will get nowhere if you flee. If you are indeed newly come to your power, I am willing to, how do they say, let bygones be bygones?" He gives another disarming smile.

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