Dottolone...
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His steps were light. Dottore closed the distance between them, with his back facing the Iriminsul.
If it's an interesting ending he wants, Pantalone can't think of anything more fitting.
He exhales, slow, and lets something in his chest settle into place. If was not grief, not yet, just the shape grief will eventually take. Then he bows. One hand drawn back against his ribs, the other extended, palm up, fingers loosely open, an invitation rather than a request. It is, he thinks, the most honest gesture he has offered anyone in decades.
“Dottore, humour me, will you?
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A Waltz in front of the Iriminsul
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- Part 1 of Dottolone...
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Where Zandik had stumbled, Dottore played perfectly. It is, technically, a superior performance. Where age had stiffened Zandik's fingers and stolen the fluid ease of youth, Dottore played without fault. If he were a fairer man, he would have complimented Dottore, whose body has never, and never will, experience the weight of time.
Pantalone is aware of this. He is also aware that he does not care. He will admit, nostalgia does make him a little biased, and Pantalone finds that he still prefers Zandik's playing. He's certain that he always will.
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Elaboration on the quest
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- Part 2 of Dottolone...
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It was widely known how much Pantalone detested traveling out of Snezhnaya, and field work in general. A trusted subordinate would have sufficed. It wasn't as though Pantalone was particularly free, he never was, and never had been. Yet, he had tagged along for Sumeru like a dog on a leash.
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A proper goodbye?
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- Part 3 of Dottolone...
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“Your last documentation showed twenty cigarettes a day," Dottore said, stopping a few paces away.
“But at the rate you're going, today is going to end with fifty.”
No response. Dottore goes on.
“This is not a habit, Pantalone. It is a project of self-destruction. If you wish for death, there are many quicker, more efficient ways. I could recommend several.”
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A stressful period for Pantalone, Dottore means well
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- Part 4 of Dottolone...
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Pantalone clears the wilted flowers from last week, and sets the fresh bouquet down at the base of the gravestone. It was a plain slab, unmarked by the Fatui's usual ostentation, purchased quietly through a shell company so no one would trace the coin back to him. It was a little unfair, how Rosalyn had a whole piece of land dedicated to her, and Dottore had to settle with a little corner of the graveyard.
He had complained about the fact that Snezhnaya was only allowed one day of mourning for Rosalyn, not knowing that his dear Doctor would have it even worse.
The white lilies look almost absurd against the grey stone. He'd chosen them for their meaning, not their beauty. Purity. Renewed innocence. A joke, really, considering whose grave he was visiting.
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Pantalone's weekly visit to the graveyard
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- Part 5 of Dottolone...