[ Another swallow, nervous and yet eager, pulse jumping even as he pulls his hand back, standing up a bit too quickly to follow. Normally Irving can stoically withstand quite a bit -- that's just what tends to happen when you spend most of your life training yourself to rise above and ignore your desires, and then further desensitize in the constant company of extremely vulgar sailors -- but even he isn't certain how much more of this he could have continued listening to without this growing need in him becoming... problematically urgent. ]
I'll leave it to your discretion, [ he murmurs, leaning close briefly before pulling away. ] though please do make me work for it.
[ It might be more overwhelming for him that way, more embarrassing, but Irving almost prefers that; better that something like this not start to become easy for him, better he feel like he can still take control of himself back whenever he might want to (even if that's quite obviously a lie).
So, he follows, not even giving a second thought to how it must look for the two of them to be going off together after sitting there drinking (incidentally, not much different from how their first meeting had gone, too), his hands opening and closing at his sides from the restraint of avoiding any sort of physical touch until they're both behind some manner of closed door. ]
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I'll leave it to your discretion, [ he murmurs, leaning close briefly before pulling away. ] though please do make me work for it.
[ It might be more overwhelming for him that way, more embarrassing, but Irving almost prefers that; better that something like this not start to become easy for him, better he feel like he can still take control of himself back whenever he might want to (even if that's quite obviously a lie).
So, he follows, not even giving a second thought to how it must look for the two of them to be going off together after sitting there drinking (incidentally, not much different from how their first meeting had gone, too), his hands opening and closing at his sides from the restraint of avoiding any sort of physical touch until they're both behind some manner of closed door. ]