[ He wants to get that out of the way first. New arrivals should be forewarned, though Heero doubts that anyone could arrive and not immediately notice the surreal, consistently inconsistent quality of everything around them. A mere ghost town this is not.
It doesn't occur to him that perhaps he's too focused on the literal, because it's the easier half of the question. He doesn't know how to put his feeling that this place expects something from them succinctly into words. For as long as he can remember - and until very recently - everything that has ever come into Heero's hands was only given to him only under condition of an adequate performance. He knows no other reality than that.
After a moment's thought, he comes up with a cryptic: ]
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[ He wants to get that out of the way first. New arrivals should be forewarned, though Heero doubts that anyone could arrive and not immediately notice the surreal, consistently inconsistent quality of everything around them. A mere ghost town this is not.
It doesn't occur to him that perhaps he's too focused on the literal, because it's the easier half of the question. He doesn't know how to put his feeling that this place expects something from them succinctly into words. For as long as he can remember - and until very recently - everything that has ever come into Heero's hands was only given to him only under condition of an adequate performance. He knows no other reality than that.
After a moment's thought, he comes up with a cryptic: ]
My experience is in transactional relationships.