《◇》I feel as though I try to outdo myself in every response i give. This character has set an unusually high bar of expectation. For me that is. My thesaurus cannot keep up

ꕤ━━🅨'🅢🅗🅣🅞🅛🅐━━ꕤ ғғ xɪᴠ ʀᴘ | ᴅɪssɪᴅɪᴀ ʀᴘ ᴅᴇᴛᴀɪʟᴇᴅ | ᴅᴇsᴄʀɪᴘᴛɪᴠᴇ ꧁━━━🅡🅗🅤🅛━━━꧂ ↻ & ♡

《◇》Forgive my absence. Important matters required my attention. Alas, I have paid my dues. I will return all owned responses and work toward being more attentive.

《◇》I have a very important reply to complete and send out.

《◇》Again, I'd like to apologize for such a lack of presence here. I've had to forfeit my leisurely life to dealing with progressing issues and such. I have not forgotten any and all who have a current thread with me. I thank you for you patience.

||Don't mind me, I'm just-

"Who are you?"

"All is in order."

⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ❝ 𝐼'𝑚 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝘩𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝓾𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓼. ❞ ⠀⠀— Lɪᴛᴇʀᴀᴛᴇ ⠀⠀— Dᴇꜱᴄʀɪᴘᴛɪᴠᴇ ⠀⠀— Sʜɪᴘꜱ Wɪᴛʜ Cʜᴇᴍ ⠀⠀— Mᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ Aɴᴅ Dᴀʀᴋ Tʜᴇᴍᴇꜱ ⠀⠀⠀ ❝ 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙. ❞ ⠀

"And so House Solidor lives on."

No such holiday cheer reached the the fortitude of the Consul's heart. For there was never a moment's reprise for the hell that consumed his day to day regimen. "If only for a moment..."

"Purification is needed...for my eyes have been stained."

And so he walks in silence. The ambiance of the night was oddly calming.

《◇》Why this seems so strangely fitting, I will never know.

"I never took you for a magician."

A callus chuckle sounded from the Consul upon hearing his full name. "Ever the expert exuding such verbal witticism. I suppose your anterior disappearance was but a jest."

"My, how cynical. Not only are you a magician of sorts but have dabbled in the arte of sadisim."

"ɪ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪᴛ sᴏᴜɴᴅs sᴇʟғɪsʜ, ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴍʏ sᴛᴏʀʏ!"