@annuitcoeptis сказал:
[Oh. Oh. He wasn't... expecting this, honestly.]
... well if you really want to know, I... have been trying to quit. Trying.
[A pause, before he shuffles around his pockets. Moments later, he pulls out a pack of cigarettes-- half-empty, but also a couple of years stale. The pack of someone going through cycles of quitting and relapsing, in other words.]
Uh-- these are kinda stale, though. 'Been holding on to 'em for a while. Unless you don't... mind that.
Trying to quit, and yet you keep them in your pocket? [He looks remarkably unconvinced here. His eyebrows go up, then down, but he doesn’t say anything. He’s couth enough to wait until after he’s already taken the cigarette.]
[And yet, Ivan can taste the stale at the cigarette’s edges when he lights up. There’s a certain hollow at the core that’s unmistakable, isn’t there? ... he smirks!]
Well, no. I don’t mind. Not that I’m one to critique a gift, of course. Though, I do have to ask... why dangle your temptations in front of your nose? You don’t have to. Are you having fun?
