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[priorly]

Yes but, I know who he is to him. He won't even admit that.

[sheriffing]

It's still different. It's always different. You're allowed to have your own relationships with whoever you want.

[priorly]

I was monogamous for four years before I got here. Celibate for months after that. So - still getting used to that.

[sheriffing]

Yeah, monogamy's great when it's what two people want. You sound like you'd be happier with all of this out in the open.

[priorly]

I hope so. Guess I'll find that out eventually.

[sheriffing]

If you're to the point of emotional emergencies, it's probably time to talk about it.

[priorly]

I'd just feel so much stronger with a hint of autumn blush.

[sheriffing]

Get one of your princes to give you an autumn blush.

[priorly]

Careful with the euphemisms, Disney'll sue.

Besides, I'm more interested in how you incorporate a hook.

[sheriffing]

I'd like to see them try.

I haven't gotten past using it to flirt, but if I ever find out, I'll let you know.

[priorly]

I'll be on the edge of my seat.

What do you do when you want to feel better? Your emotional emergency medication, so to speak?

[sheriffing]

I'm sure.

I punch things. Or people, depending on the situation.

[priorly]

Baby, that's not comfort, that's cathartic. Comfort, comfort, what trivial little material things make you happy?

[sheriffing]

I lived on the streets when I was a kid. You learn not to rely on material things.

[priorly]

You did? How come?

[sheriffing]

Because the foster system sucked, so I decided I'd be better off on my own.

[priorly]

Since I can't imagine you turning out better, perhaps you were.

Were you alone, though? Completely? That's incredibly hard.

[sheriffing]

Yeah, most of the time. I was with someone for a while - someone I loved - but once that ended, everything else just got more complicated.

[ as in she ended up pregnant, and in prison.]

My family says I put up walls, but for most of my life, it was safer that way.

[priorly]

Princess, we all do that, and some some of us were raised by the finest nannies New England had to offer. We're made of soft stuff, sometimes you need a wall. It's who you let behind it with you that counts.

[sheriffing]

I had the wall when I needed it, and I guess I kept it up longer than that, too. Being here is like just trying to get by all over again.

You were raised by nannies?

[priorly]

I'm a WASP. Old family, in the sense that dating back to the Mayflower's something we'd consider a flash in the pan. There was a Prior Walter stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry, I'm told.

We don't raise our own young.

[sheriffing]

I can't imagine being raised by the nanny was all that great for you.

[priorly]

Yet most likely better than the alternative. Are we trading stories of woe now? I can't one-up a homeless child.

[sheriffing]

I don't know, I probably would've run from the nanny, too. Homeless teen, I was about fifteen at the time.

Every time I ran as a kid, someone found me.