"I have utterly failed that directive for today and I do not see it improving," he grimaces, and then his shoulders sink lower. He's being too loose with his words and much too familiar with her.
But he grunts at her criticism of his plan, leaning back from the bar and finding he can stand alright. With a deep breath, he meets her eyes briefly before inclining his head. "I meant no disrespect. I simply thought you would wish to go on without me." Away from him. Not -- closer than she usually stands. His traitorous mind notes how lovely she smells, and a fantasy of her in a bath, her climbing onto him after flashes lightning-fast in his mind, and his cheeks flush anew.
He's relieved to focus on the much simpler issue of leaving this damned place. He takes a step, then another. The floor only tilts a little.
"I am going to have Balthier's pretty head for this," he grumbles. These thoughts had been pleasantly buried and locked before that pirate started his meddling, and now he wasn't certain how he was going to manage standing in the same room as her.
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Date: 2023-08-05 01:34 am (UTC)But he grunts at her criticism of his plan, leaning back from the bar and finding he can stand alright. With a deep breath, he meets her eyes briefly before inclining his head. "I meant no disrespect. I simply thought you would wish to go on without me." Away from him. Not -- closer than she usually stands. His traitorous mind notes how lovely she smells, and a fantasy of her in a bath, her climbing onto him after flashes lightning-fast in his mind, and his cheeks flush anew.
He's relieved to focus on the much simpler issue of leaving this damned place. He takes a step, then another. The floor only tilts a little.
"I am going to have Balthier's pretty head for this," he grumbles. These thoughts had been pleasantly buried and locked before that pirate started his meddling, and now he wasn't certain how he was going to manage standing in the same room as her.