He was going to make her cry. Noble looked at the ceiling of the workshop, at the balls of floating magical light he'd enchanted to hang in here, and then back at her. He swallowed. He was going to make her cry. He didn't think there was any way around it: he could tell her the truth or he could lie, and either way she was going to cry, right here, in front of him. He pushed another hand through his hair.
"It's not —" fuck, what was he supposed to say? For the first time this evening Noble realized that this could very well be the end of them, right here, today. "It's not really the sort of thing you can fix." If it was fixable, if it was not a leviathan of a problem, Noble and Ford would have found a way to solve it a while ago. They were smart people. They could do it.
It was that the only solution was what they were doing — holding things together and moving money around and trying to get the girls married as quickly as possible. But that didn't do anything for Daff.
"It's not —" fuck, what was he supposed to say? For the first time this evening Noble realized that this could very well be the end of them, right here, today. "It's not really the sort of thing you can fix." If it was fixable, if it was not a leviathan of a problem, Noble and Ford would have found a way to solve it a while ago. They were smart people. They could do it.
It was that the only solution was what they were doing — holding things together and moving money around and trying to get the girls married as quickly as possible. But that didn't do anything for Daff.
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