omnicrafter: (a world apart)
Irhya Pendhula ([personal profile] omnicrafter) wrote in [community profile] duplicitymemes 2019-03-08 08:43 am (UTC)

[For a moment, she's just quiet, looking him up and down analytically. She can't see his face, no, but the rest of him that she can discern looks... pretty nice, she has to admit. So it's definitely not the physical department that's wanting, which means...

Irhya smirks, though it isn't haughty or sardonic for a change; rather, she's just sincerely amused.]


A big, tough dragoon like you... the shy type? Never thought I'd see that happen.

[If it isn't physical, it's in his personality. Something he does turns people off of him, from the sound of it, and she has a feeling based on that line alone she knows what it is.

She's heard it in a whisper, somewhere in her own inner monologue, in spare moments that turn to hours of lying in bed and thinking over her own life.

People like confidence, one of her past partners had told her. That something about it is attractive to others. And if he's not going to be the suave one here, well...]


I mean. [A beat. Her grin turns a little sheepish.] We could fix that.

[Okay, the delivery wasn't perfect, but maybe he can be talked into it, in that case...?

No, she still can't have Estinien in the one place that might've facilitated such a thing, but what else is new. This is the next best thing, at least comparing physical things in common.]

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