Nnno, it doesn’t, [ Bastien says contemplatively. ] You just have a weird thing for Orlesians.
[ The secret of his lifelong levity: Byerly’s shoulder nudges up against his, and as far as Bastien’s mood is concerned, the last several minutes might as well have never happened. He doesn’t forget them, and later he’ll them back out of their drawer to examine. But the misery that might have lingered and colored things afterwards, in someone else, slides off of him like water off of glass.
He keeps one foot on the floor, but he folds the other up so he doesn’t have to twist his spine too much to lean a little weight against Byerly’s shoulder. ]
It sounds dirty in your accent.
[ He leans his head forward to give Alexandrie a hopeful look around the Fereldan between them. Back him up, please. ]
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Date: 2021-02-18 09:21 pm (UTC)[ The secret of his lifelong levity: Byerly’s shoulder nudges up against his, and as far as Bastien’s mood is concerned, the last several minutes might as well have never happened. He doesn’t forget them, and later he’ll them back out of their drawer to examine. But the misery that might have lingered and colored things afterwards, in someone else, slides off of him like water off of glass.
He keeps one foot on the floor, but he folds the other up so he doesn’t have to twist his spine too much to lean a little weight against Byerly’s shoulder. ]
It sounds dirty in your accent.
[ He leans his head forward to give Alexandrie a hopeful look around the Fereldan between them. Back him up, please. ]