[ ... Small smile. The fact he doesn't make a joke about it says a lot about his mood on the subject. He'll take one. ]
... Thanks, Fräulein. You're unusually generous, to be flirting with the enemy like this.
[ ... Well, a small joke. But she can tell he doesn't mean it quite literally. Figure of speech.
He'll take it and toy with his hair with his free hand. ]
There's a part of me that wonders if I should go back to trying to divorce myself from him, like I did in my younger days... I kept my hair short then, ja? Now that I'm older, people don't say, "oh, you're Kristoph's younger brother!" to me quite so much... but... people know we're related.
There's no escaping that for me. You should've heard some of the phonecalls I got when news got out to the press about his initial arrest. "How does it feel to be related to a murderer?" "Were you his accomplice?" "Were all those songs you wrote literal?" "Do you have a bodycount, too?" ... Honestly.
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... Thanks, Fräulein. You're unusually generous, to be flirting with the enemy like this.
[ ... Well, a small joke. But she can tell he doesn't mean it quite literally. Figure of speech.
He'll take it and toy with his hair with his free hand. ]
There's a part of me that wonders if I should go back to trying to divorce myself from him, like I did in my younger days... I kept my hair short then, ja? Now that I'm older, people don't say, "oh, you're Kristoph's younger brother!" to me quite so much... but... people know we're related.
There's no escaping that for me. You should've heard some of the phonecalls I got when news got out to the press about his initial arrest. "How does it feel to be related to a murderer?" "Were you his accomplice?" "Were all those songs you wrote literal?" "Do you have a bodycount, too?" ... Honestly.