*This unnerving cleverness of Barty's, to have his words run and run and never stop, leaping logic in single bounds, confuding parents and professors and peers en masse, and finding sea captains in the voices of boys still too short and vernal to be called men - it's something Regulus could never make heads nor tails of, but has almost always liked. This makes it all the more startling when Barty's barrage of half-shared thoughts is interrupted, before it really gets a chance to get going, by the smash of crystal on the cold floor.
Regulus' glass and all it's poorly poured contents spray in hundreds of pieces between them, and his arm remains incriminatingly raised after swatting it from the counter. The familiar lilt of Barty's voice, the manic cadence of it, is finally overpowered by something, and Regulus feels a panic, not sure if he's ready for Barty to ever be quiet.*
STOP. ...If you say more I know I'll just scream.
You never stop to listen, Barty! I could tell you a dozen times and you think I'm joking but the world can't be laughed at anymore, it just can't! Everywhere's all broken up into pieces and no one does as they should, and not even you will listen to me! Why won't you just stay inside and not go out there anymore and not shove me! That hurt.
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Date: 2011-11-23 03:53 am (UTC)Regulus' glass and all it's poorly poured contents spray in hundreds of pieces between them, and his arm remains incriminatingly raised after swatting it from the counter. The familiar lilt of Barty's voice, the manic cadence of it, is finally overpowered by something, and Regulus feels a panic, not sure if he's ready for Barty to ever be quiet.*
STOP. ...If you say more I know I'll just scream.
You never stop to listen, Barty! I could tell you a dozen times and you think I'm joking but the world can't be laughed at anymore, it just can't! Everywhere's all broken up into pieces and no one does as they should, and not even you will listen to me! Why won't you just stay inside and not go out there anymore and not shove me! That hurt.