Prompt: 30. Circumlocution

Character(s): Stiles

Word Count: 365

Rating: PG

Warning(s): None

Sometimes he wondered if he would ever meet another person who got what he was saying. Someone who could get it without having to explain it out loud and get the affirmative from him that what he had just said was what they in fact had just simplified.

It wasn't that he couldn't say things directly; mostly he just didn't want to. He thought that since he already spoke too much he may as well say it in a way that made people have to listen.

If he just talked on and on without the mannerisms and tangents and hints he found it made him much less interesting to listen to.

He hoped that at some point he'd actually meet someone to banter with, preferably female. Someone who gave the perfect openings to insert his own brand of intellectual merit in and sneak in and leave her own behind.

It wasn't about actual intelligence, just clever word choice and diction, turns of phrase, insinuation, a subtlety of speech pattern.

When talking to Scott about the matter he found his best friend to be not only unreceptive but confused by the one-sided debate that he had carried on by himself with little input from the other boy besides nods and noncommittal grunts and groans.

He figured that the whole point of language was to communicate and communication was just a verbal expression of thoughts, and his thoughts were just as much tangentative as his speech so it was easier to let them out the way they wanted to be let out: confusing, contradictory, unrestrained.

It was, he decided finally that it was cathartic more than anything else and maybe easier too, to say everything he was thinking at once instead of having to let it out gradually. Once he said everything he'd thought he could happily sit down and shut up for the rest of whatever length of time he had to shut up for.

So, he came to the conclusion, it was better for him to keep talking even if cut off or shushed or smacked on the head because it was the fastest way to what everyone wanted; him to shut the hell up.