His heart does not flutter in his chest. It does not. Because this is not Phillip, not his Phillip and he does not know him. They do not know each other.
(He is not thinking about how much he could shock this young man, how he could turn the tables after The Bunny Incident, how if he wanted to he could be the best lover he'd ever run across without him ever knowing why)
He is doing absolutely none of those things. Mostly he is not doing them by sheer force of will of not doing them. He is mostly left with not enough brain power to be clever on top of the sheer force of all of things he's not doing or having happen to him.
"I'm fine, don't worry," he says with a soft smile in return. And maybe that would be it, and he would just leave, except sometimes part of what his specific version of the Echo seems to do for him is light upon something to say that slips from his mouth before it hits his brain. He can stop it, if he's paying attention, but there's entirely too much going on here for him to curb the words before he's hearing himself say them, "You're so pretty."
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Date: 2022-01-06 10:29 pm (UTC)(He is not thinking about how much he could shock this young man, how he could turn the tables after The Bunny Incident, how if he wanted to he could be the best lover he'd ever run across without him ever knowing why)
He is doing absolutely none of those things. Mostly he is not doing them by sheer force of will of not doing them. He is mostly left with not enough brain power to be clever on top of the sheer force of all of things he's not doing or having happen to him.
"I'm fine, don't worry," he says with a soft smile in return. And maybe that would be it, and he would just leave, except sometimes part of what his specific version of the Echo seems to do for him is light upon something to say that slips from his mouth before it hits his brain. He can stop it, if he's paying attention, but there's entirely too much going on here for him to curb the words before he's hearing himself say them, "You're so pretty."