bringspeopletogether: ([warden] look to the sky)
Alistair ([personal profile] bringspeopletogether) wrote in [personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2017-02-05 05:34 am (UTC)

Alistair hitches up one shoulder, just enough to convey a shrug without disturbing Cullen. "Part of that business where I want you to be happy, I suspect," he says. "I like knowing you had something pleasant, like this."

A beat goes by; the tail end of it shifts toward awkwardness.

"And -- I guess I'm curious what it's like to..."

In Alistair's mind, about six different ways to end that sentence crash into one another, ending in a self-pitying mishmash he's too embarrassed to say aloud. So he doesn't.

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