When Cordelia broke up with him, Imp was terribly ashamed.
Not because his very first relationship had failed. They mostly do, even in Llamedos, where things are a bit more staid, and dour, and foggy, than elsewhere on the Disc. Say, in Genua. Or in Ankh-Morpork, come to that. In Ankh-Morpork, your very first relationship might consist of the exchange of five dollars against a short round of wham-bam-thankyoumam, a well-travelled uncle had once told him. He had no idea what he meant by that, but had nodded and grinned as was expected of him.
No, he was ashamed because he falt a strange, surreptitious kind of relief. He had given it all a try, as he was supposed to do, and found it curiously lacking. He didn't want to hurt Cordelia, and so he had staid with her; but when she gently broke off things at last, he felt like a rabbit that had slipped the sling.
Now he was free to live for his music. At least that was what he was telling himself at the time.
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Not because his very first relationship had failed. They mostly do, even in Llamedos, where things are a bit more staid, and dour, and foggy, than elsewhere on the Disc. Say, in Genua. Or in Ankh-Morpork, come to that. In Ankh-Morpork, your very first relationship might consist of the exchange of five dollars against a short round of wham-bam-thankyoumam, a well-travelled uncle had once told him. He had no idea what he meant by that, but had nodded and grinned as was expected of him.
No, he was ashamed because he falt a strange, surreptitious kind of relief. He had given it all a try, as he was supposed to do, and found it curiously lacking. He didn't want to hurt Cordelia, and so he had staid with her; but when she gently broke off things at last, he felt like a rabbit that had slipped the sling.
Now he was free to live for his music. At least that was what he was telling himself at the time.