[Normal, it's probably not a word that's been used to describe him no, and when it comes to death-- well. It's something he's faced more than once, when he'd been caught in the oncoming grip of the plague, locked deep in the palace dungeons with his own feverish thoughts and the desperate desire to find a cure the only company there, and his appointment with the gallows, one he now knows - thanks to Pasha - he does survive, but he'd been ready to face it regardless of the ultimate outcome. Had come back to Vesuvia for answers, yes, but also to pay for his imagined crimes.
He's brushed with death before and will do it again and its wrong to say he feels no fear in the face of it, he is afraid. But self-immolation for something bigger than himself-- there's a powerful appeal in that. If its for something else, for someone else, he'll do it without hesitation.
Right now though such thoughts are far from him as the other man grips him by the wrist and he allows himself to be dragged away, lips curved because he likes that.]
Do you have somewhere in mind? I was thinking the back of this bar but um, if you had a better idea...?
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He's brushed with death before and will do it again and its wrong to say he feels no fear in the face of it, he is afraid. But self-immolation for something bigger than himself-- there's a powerful appeal in that. If its for something else, for someone else, he'll do it without hesitation.
Right now though such thoughts are far from him as the other man grips him by the wrist and he allows himself to be dragged away, lips curved because he likes that.]
Do you have somewhere in mind? I was thinking the back of this bar but um, if you had a better idea...?
[He talks to fill the space between them.]