[Happily, Verso loops his arm over Clive's, leaning in at first, a boop of shoulders, before stopping in the hallway. Of course, he knows where to go on the far simpler level of procuring the goods, but the mention of Renoir's atelier introduces a complication Verso hadn't been thinking of, along with another truth, perhaps, that should be spoken, even if it's minor compared to all the others.]
Is this where I admit I've never actually been there?
[In this iteration of the manor, anyway. He has Verso's memories of the real Renoir's atelier, and his own memories of his father's, but something has always kept him out of the one here. Namely:]
It's... locked. I think I know where the key is, but getting it in place, well, that's complicated.
[For more than the one reason, like so many things are. On the one hand, it's a portrait of the real Verso's family – of course, that's strange to deal with on an emotional and psychological level. But on the other, and more importantly if Verso's being honest, he worries that the portrait gives him away. Renoir right there. Alicia in colour. Verso with pitch black hair and no scars over his eye. And while people could just assume it was from before the Fracture, that itself opens up questions that Verso has never really wanted to answer about the other woman, his missing sister and the one who created the Nevrons, his missing mother and the one who everyone wants to kill.]
If I'm right, it's a portrait the real Dessendres had painted of themselves. Finding it'll be no problem, if you don't mind the detour. Or, we can raid the storeroom. Up to you.
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Is this where I admit I've never actually been there?
[In this iteration of the manor, anyway. He has Verso's memories of the real Renoir's atelier, and his own memories of his father's, but something has always kept him out of the one here. Namely:]
It's... locked. I think I know where the key is, but getting it in place, well, that's complicated.
[For more than the one reason, like so many things are. On the one hand, it's a portrait of the real Verso's family – of course, that's strange to deal with on an emotional and psychological level. But on the other, and more importantly if Verso's being honest, he worries that the portrait gives him away. Renoir right there. Alicia in colour. Verso with pitch black hair and no scars over his eye. And while people could just assume it was from before the Fracture, that itself opens up questions that Verso has never really wanted to answer about the other woman, his missing sister and the one who created the Nevrons, his missing mother and the one who everyone wants to kill.]
If I'm right, it's a portrait the real Dessendres had painted of themselves. Finding it'll be no problem, if you don't mind the detour. Or, we can raid the storeroom. Up to you.