Brooke remained silent, listening as Alistaire spoke. There was much that was said that Brooke herself certainly hadn't expected. The faintest of Mona Lisa smiles lifted the corners of her raspberry-glossed lips as she listened to Alistaire.
"It's a handsome offer, Mr. Shaw," Brooke replied after a moment. "And as much as it amuses and flatters me that the Black King needs the Red Rook's aid...I'm afraid I'm not quite as fit to help you as you may have been led to believe." There was, shockingly, no vitriol in her tone, nor was she putting Alistaire down. In fact, Brooke was showing a surprising amount of restraint.
Apparently being the hostess did change things about one's own demeanor.
"There's much that I'm still learning about my powers - how to use them, how to control them. How to fine-tune them. Rachel and - shockingly - Emma Frost are both helping me with that, and we've made some progress, but evidently...sociopathic tendencies of my own are getting in the way of that." It was something that Alistaire himself would surely understand, being a clinical sociopath himself. "Believe me, it isn't easy for me to admit not having an upper hand but here...I simply don't."
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"It's a handsome offer, Mr. Shaw," Brooke replied after a moment. "And as much as it amuses and flatters me that the Black King needs the Red Rook's aid...I'm afraid I'm not quite as fit to help you as you may have been led to believe." There was, shockingly, no vitriol in her tone, nor was she putting Alistaire down. In fact, Brooke was showing a surprising amount of restraint.
Apparently being the hostess did change things about one's own demeanor.
"There's much that I'm still learning about my powers - how to use them, how to control them. How to fine-tune them. Rachel and - shockingly - Emma Frost are both helping me with that, and we've made some progress, but evidently...sociopathic tendencies of my own are getting in the way of that." It was something that Alistaire himself would surely understand, being a clinical sociopath himself. "Believe me, it isn't easy for me to admit not having an upper hand but here...I simply don't."