[ It's a mockery of a lord and lady, of good manners and what society would dictated. He knows it for what it is, what she's offering, and if he were a better man, he'd tell her the truth, that he wasn't fit for such things.
Never mind, a gentleman would never get this drunk in a woman's presence.
He could hear the mocking words of the Outsider, fingers smoothing in his hair saying things he didn't want to hear ( You don't have any honor left, do you Corvo? Is that why you do the things you do, do you think it will give it back to you? Give you back the poor dead Empress you failed? )
But those are a shades thoughts in his head, and mentally shakes himself to dispel them. Sometimes he thought, on this ship, that the void was going to open up under his boots and swallow him whole. Drag him down. It's a fear as real as any -- and it all could be a trick.
He takes her arm, because it's a life line, for all the reasons he'd never say. ]
You don't need me for this. [ She was more than capable. All the same, having her there made it easier to walk in a straight line. ]
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Never mind, a gentleman would never get this drunk in a woman's presence.
He could hear the mocking words of the Outsider, fingers smoothing in his hair saying things he didn't want to hear ( You don't have any honor left, do you Corvo? Is that why you do the things you do, do you think it will give it back to you? Give you back the poor dead Empress you failed? )
But those are a shades thoughts in his head, and mentally shakes himself to dispel them. Sometimes he thought, on this ship, that the void was going to open up under his boots and swallow him whole. Drag him down. It's a fear as real as any -- and it all could be a trick.
He takes her arm, because it's a life line, for all the reasons he'd never say. ]
You don't need me for this. [ She was more than capable. All the same, having her there made it easier to walk in a straight line. ]