The static hiss to warm silk is echoed by a shiver he can’t quite stifle behind his breastbone -- another glanced apology for the insubordination of his nervous system, snared into a longer pause while Fitcher works. They could forego the gambling and proceed directly to an inn. There’s the slip of a concealed knife in there somewhere, familiar placement, sharp edges barely there beneath the brocade of his vest.
And now this pin.
He reaches his free hand up to assist with the smoothing of his own lapel and nods. Head in the game.
Gambling was his suggestion.
Some distance aft and aside, Thot waits alert, poised rigid as a caltrop apart from tremor of her tail. Later she’ll dance between feet and around table legs to score glances at carefully guarded hands. Surely not all creatures of the Fade are terrible.
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Date: 2022-05-15 07:36 pm (UTC)The static hiss to warm silk is echoed by a shiver he can’t quite stifle behind his breastbone -- another glanced apology for the insubordination of his nervous system, snared into a longer pause while Fitcher works. They could forego the gambling and proceed directly to an inn. There’s the slip of a concealed knife in there somewhere, familiar placement, sharp edges barely there beneath the brocade of his vest.
And now this pin.
He reaches his free hand up to assist with the smoothing of his own lapel and nods. Head in the game.
Gambling was his suggestion.
Some distance aft and aside, Thot waits alert, poised rigid as a caltrop apart from tremor of her tail. Later she’ll dance between feet and around table legs to score glances at carefully guarded hands. Surely not all creatures of the Fade are terrible.