It is wonderful. [ Charles smiles. ] We've been ... estranged for some time now due to going on different life paths, so I am taking this unexpected chance to reconnect with her as much as possible.
[ There is no one that Charles loves more than Raven, but the distance between them has become wide. She still walked away from him at the White House, on to whatever her life will be after that, so they couldn't fully reunite. This is one of the few things he is positive about while stuck in this place. A chance to reconcile with her.
They haven't yet had the hardest discussions about what went wrong between them, but they are working up to that. There is a huge gap that will take time to fill in, but Charles is ready and eager to work on it with her.
Charles gives her a cheers back and this does feel like he's gone backwards in time a little, to a time when he liked chatting with strangers at a bar. It's a nice feeling, honestly, it's not only the alcohol that is making him relax. It could be that Karen herself is just good at that, she does seem very warm and open, traits that not everyone possesses. ]
It is, and here is the strangest part, they know an older version of me. I say students and you might think teenagers, but no, they're in their twenties and thirties. [ Logan is older than that but it requires explaining and he's not going to. ] They were teenagers when they met me. It's all very confusing.
[ Charles sees no real reason to hold back facts like that, and also that it seems like it happens here occasionally so she might want to know it for her own reasons. It's difficult for him as he tries to establish his own connection with them and also live up to their expectations. Charles doubts that he fully has, but the attempt has been there. He hopes that matters. So far, it seems to, but there is still a lot to understand. ]
Hell's Kitchen, in the city, do you like it there? New York's always been too loud and busy for me, personally, but I am an old fuddy duddy.
[ It is literally too loud for him. He has barely tolerated Panorama and London was easy when he was there, but it's still no New York City. ]
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[ There is no one that Charles loves more than Raven, but the distance between them has become wide. She still walked away from him at the White House, on to whatever her life will be after that, so they couldn't fully reunite. This is one of the few things he is positive about while stuck in this place. A chance to reconcile with her.
They haven't yet had the hardest discussions about what went wrong between them, but they are working up to that. There is a huge gap that will take time to fill in, but Charles is ready and eager to work on it with her.
Charles gives her a cheers back and this does feel like he's gone backwards in time a little, to a time when he liked chatting with strangers at a bar. It's a nice feeling, honestly, it's not only the alcohol that is making him relax. It could be that Karen herself is just good at that, she does seem very warm and open, traits that not everyone possesses. ]
It is, and here is the strangest part, they know an older version of me. I say students and you might think teenagers, but no, they're in their twenties and thirties. [ Logan is older than that but it requires explaining and he's not going to. ] They were teenagers when they met me. It's all very confusing.
[ Charles sees no real reason to hold back facts like that, and also that it seems like it happens here occasionally so she might want to know it for her own reasons. It's difficult for him as he tries to establish his own connection with them and also live up to their expectations. Charles doubts that he fully has, but the attempt has been there. He hopes that matters. So far, it seems to, but there is still a lot to understand. ]
Hell's Kitchen, in the city, do you like it there? New York's always been too loud and busy for me, personally, but I am an old fuddy duddy.
[ It is literally too loud for him. He has barely tolerated Panorama and London was easy when he was there, but it's still no New York City. ]