#the shortest fill but asdfasfd here it is

[ascalonsmercy]

9/07: NOISOME.

adjective: disagreeable; unpleasant.

rating: t

characters: donatien de dansereau

tags: introspection, some donny musings, itty bitty character study

summary: everyone has their fun and so can he.

wordcount: 181

Donatien supposed this would be inevitable—it seemed every Dansereau was doomed to be the topic of noisome gossip one way or another. Still, he liked to imagine he handled it far better than the others would. There was much fun in ambiguity and he delighted in the idea of others being perplexed—if not mortified by what had become of the late Baron Dansereau’s youngest.

He supposed he enjoyed attention to a moderate amount. There was a solace in the solitude of his private room that no person could give him and he preferred it that way. By nature he knew himself to be selfish: the treachery of being such a person while in the profession that called for one to serve wholeheartedly was agony for most, but for him it was sheer entertainment. He liked watching the metamorphosis of conviction into conflict as his suspects lost hope to his interrogations. Most everyone ought to experience such a feeling of utter dread in their lives—brought at their lowest with no one or nothing to turn to.

Aside from the Fury, of course.