Bow Street Rides

[Ezra Huntington]

Tag: Emmeline Denford

you can run

BUT YOU'LL DIE TIRED

She stated that she was not offended, yet it still begged the question as to why it affected her so much. "And why does this cause you issue?" He questioned, speaking aloud his thoughts. She said she was confused as to why he had never given her a chance, beyond the distrust he held for her. He knew full well that he was not exactly an easy person to get along with. That he had very personal ties and those considered friends were still not ones he delved into deeply emotional things with.

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He was reserved and stoic, steeled and not with an easy going nature. She, seemed to be quite the opposite. Possessing a very evident likability about her; friendly to all and seemingly easy going. "Are you so used to everyone liking you, that you can not fathom a person who is an exception to this?" It was not to say he disliked her. But it was to say that he did not trust her and thus, was not warm or open in her company . . . clearly.

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She fact that she did not seem to give up on trying, be it insisting on accompanying him, defying his orders, and everything in between . . . well, it brought further issue in what he had against her. But it was indeed interesting, that it bothered her so much whether he liked her or not. He did not see it as flattery, but rather . . . was more suspicious of it than anything else. Of course, it could be just as he had suggested; that she was unused to the feeling of not being liked.

[Emmeline Denford]

He seemed to find it difficult to understand. "Yes." She admitted, "I have come to learn you care nothing for how others see you. You do not value their opinions of yourself, but I do. I was raised to do." She did not like telling him of herself, but if it kept his mind off not trusting her, then she would do it.

"My father was a son of a fourth son of a baron." Which gave her some very minor status--or had when her father was alive. "It is close enough to nobility that I was raised to believe the opinions of others mattered, that by being valued and helpful I could make my way easier in this world. I cannot fathom how you could not, just as you cannot fathom how I can."

"My parents died of an illness. I no longer have the connections, but I have their teachings. Yes, it matters if you think I am useless. Perhaps more so since I do not wish to be seen as such by you." It was a little more honest than she wanted to be with him, but if it turned this topic away from him trying to understand her, then it would be worth it.

Ezra Huntington