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[personal profile] 100more 2022-09-05 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hob smiled and chuckled again. He didn't think his words particularly insightful, but he answered the question honestly.]

I'm happy to help.

[It was nice to be of use to Dream after all these years apart. Though he knows Dream's interest in Hob's experiences ended centuries ago. They met simply for companionship after that.]

You talk like you don't know it. Intimacy, I mean.

[Maybe he had overstepped with those words, but Dream speaks about it as though he were merely an observer.]
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[personal profile] 100more 2022-09-06 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[When Morpheus removed his hand, Hob knew he had stuck his foot in his mouth again. He shouldn't have said something so personal. As Morpheus sat looking tense, Hob also got up from his reclined position to sit, afraid the man might try to get up and leave. He's relieved when he's not left alone in the park.

When Dream says he's experienced intimacy, it's not with the sort of fondness one might who had good memories of it, which makes Hob frown.

What the man says does make sense. Hob can only imagine how many of those dreams are something intimate with so many people dreaming all over the world. And he figures some intimate dreams are better than others.]


And.. your fulfillment? Don't you ever want something for yourself?

[He was probably pushing it, but Hob couldn't help but speak his thoughts.]
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[personal profile] 100more 2022-09-06 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[When Hob lost his own family, it ruined him for nearly a century. That sort of loss was the kind that many do not come back from. Others might have accepted death at that point, but Hob was more resilient than some others. Perhaps they picked someone too strong willed for Death's game, or more likely, Death knew exactly how Hob would handle eternal life and what his life would do to her brother.]

To be fair, I didn't know I was gambling at the time.

[It was also very human to simple stumble through life with a bit of luck. At Morpheus' words, Hob smiles.]

I like being with you, too.

[Maybe those aren't the exact words that came from Dream, but Hob reads between the lines.]
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[personal profile] 100more 2022-09-06 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: That seems like a nice place to wrap this one. But more than happy to do additional threads and continue the other one, of course.]
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[personal profile] 100more 2022-09-06 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Yes, definitely!]