[The compliment doesn’t cause him to stir; he receives these exact ones on the Frontier, too. People who realize they’ve been unwillingly and accidentally beguiled by his beauty. The ones who realize he isn’t completely human.
A faint carnelian glow has eaten through the usual rusty color of his eyes. They lower from Gilia to the bottle in her hand. He can already smell the pungent scent of it lingering. It’s rather vile. It reminds him of the concoctions given to him in the laboratory when he was young.]
I can handle them.
[The croaky voice in his head is reminding him that it is attached to him, and it’s rather not have to find another body!
Slowly, holding the hat to his chest below his long fingers, he lifts himself upright with his torso alone, fluidly, swinging his legs over the edge of the bale. He sits shoulder to shoulder with her, hat in his lap, the dark hair shielding most of his pale and grey face. The pointed tips of his ears split through on each side. Without the imposing accessory on his head, he really doesn’t look much more than a forlorn, beautiful young man.]
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A faint carnelian glow has eaten through the usual rusty color of his eyes. They lower from Gilia to the bottle in her hand. He can already smell the pungent scent of it lingering. It’s rather vile. It reminds him of the concoctions given to him in the laboratory when he was young.]
I can handle them.
[The croaky voice in his head is reminding him that it is attached to him, and it’s rather not have to find another body!
Slowly, holding the hat to his chest below his long fingers, he lifts himself upright with his torso alone, fluidly, swinging his legs over the edge of the bale. He sits shoulder to shoulder with her, hat in his lap, the dark hair shielding most of his pale and grey face. The pointed tips of his ears split through on each side. Without the imposing accessory on his head, he really doesn’t look much more than a forlorn, beautiful young man.]