He's perhaps not the most attractive person she's ever seen-- not in a world of sexy cat and bunny boys and broad, muscular highlanders. But he's somehow both boyishly attractive and a bit ethereal at the same time, which is a novel enough combination that it's interesting to just watch him, if nothing else, and he's easy enough on the eyes while she does.
There's something sharp and wary about his gaze when she moves to the teapot, and he holds off on his boots so he can watch her like a hawk while she pours, but his smile and voice are warm when she brings the cup over to him,
"Thank you," he wraps his fingers around the cup, but he doesn't drink until she does. It's very, very subtle, she'd never notice if she, herself, wasn't trained in etiquette, though it's hard to tell whether he's following etiquette or fears being poisoned with the combination of things. Either way, he draws no attention to it beyond that, and he does drink, so she must have done something to satisfy that.
"It certainly seems that way. Or that they weren't given much time to leave. Even so, I would expect some kind of turmoil. One of the houses had some small amount of disarray, but not what I would have expected of a fleeing person, even one without time to grab anything but what they carried."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2022-02-25 11:25 pm (UTC)There's something sharp and wary about his gaze when she moves to the teapot, and he holds off on his boots so he can watch her like a hawk while she pours, but his smile and voice are warm when she brings the cup over to him,
"Thank you," he wraps his fingers around the cup, but he doesn't drink until she does. It's very, very subtle, she'd never notice if she, herself, wasn't trained in etiquette, though it's hard to tell whether he's following etiquette or fears being poisoned with the combination of things. Either way, he draws no attention to it beyond that, and he does drink, so she must have done something to satisfy that.
"It certainly seems that way. Or that they weren't given much time to leave. Even so, I would expect some kind of turmoil. One of the houses had some small amount of disarray, but not what I would have expected of a fleeing person, even one without time to grab anything but what they carried."