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Jonathan Sims ([personal profile] end_recording) wrote in [community profile] barrayar 2020-07-14 03:17 pm (UTC)

Of course Jean-Claude had dealt with all this existential nonsense centuries ago. Jon is momentarily chastised into silence, his gaze averted. Feeling as if once again everyone had gotten a copy of the Rules for Supernatural Living except for him. Or perhaps his ineptitude at being a human was really a more general ineptitude at living.

In truth Jon had avoided thinking too deeply on his humanity, once he knew it was gone. There hadn't been much point. The other avatars had made it abundantly clear there was no going back. None of them had wanted to.

Jon didn't know whether he was afraid of the day he would no longer want to be human, or afraid he had already passed that mark, too.

"Do you ever think it's... better, being a vampire?" The question might sound like it is hunting the information that Jean-Claude deliberately left out but the hesitant way Jon asks, voice quiet, gaze still averted, makes it clear that it is an indirect (and unintended) answer to Jean-Claude's implied question. Jon's never shy about asking other people personal questions.

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