"That's the spirit," he says grinning broadly and holding his cup up in a toast for a moment. "Both of us shall plan to make it out of this and to help as many as we can say the same. That's all anyone can do."
His smile softens, but sticks around and there's that slightly sly but openly so look to him,
"Now, I believe I might have been promised a drink for making sure my courage rubbed off on you. I'm not one to drink much before a fight, but a nightcap before I have to go figure out who's got a warm bed for me to crawl into sounds positively lovely."
He says it so casually that it might take a moment (or miss the mark entirely) that if he's singing for his supper, he's probably not talking about purchasing one, which implies a very different kind of currency. Truth be told, he's not really thinking of it in those terms, though-- he's likely to enjoy the distraction nearly as much as the bed, after all.
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Date: 2021-01-14 07:04 am (UTC)His smile softens, but sticks around and there's that slightly sly but openly so look to him,
"Now, I believe I might have been promised a drink for making sure my courage rubbed off on you. I'm not one to drink much before a fight, but a nightcap before I have to go figure out who's got a warm bed for me to crawl into sounds positively lovely."
He says it so casually that it might take a moment (or miss the mark entirely) that if he's singing for his supper, he's probably not talking about purchasing one, which implies a very different kind of currency. Truth be told, he's not really thinking of it in those terms, though-- he's likely to enjoy the distraction nearly as much as the bed, after all.