[Is she sure she doesn't want to try that again? "Nothing" looks an awful lot like she's about to pass out at his feet. Or be sick on them.]
Right. That's why a friendly chat over the canapes has Her Highness looking white as a sheet? I don't know who you're trying to convince, but I'm not buying it.
[Candid, maybe, but that's Nyx for you; they don't put him on these details for his timid personality. He glances behind him, a quick check to make sure their corner of the reception is still secluded. He can only hope no one is paying too close attention to a common glaive leading Tenebrae's princess around by the arm or he's going to get an earful for leaving his post to play personal escort.
And she has her own image to maintain, he'd bet. The last minute has only made him more convinced everything isn't what it seems within the Niflheim party.]
You know, that wasn't really an answer.
[Light. Deceptively casual. His gaze betrays just how closely he's watching her, though, following her aborted attempt to catch her breath. A glaive's job is to protect the king. If he accepted every request for an audience without a reason, he wouldn't be very good at it.]
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Right. That's why a friendly chat over the canapes has Her Highness looking white as a sheet? I don't know who you're trying to convince, but I'm not buying it.
[Candid, maybe, but that's Nyx for you; they don't put him on these details for his timid personality. He glances behind him, a quick check to make sure their corner of the reception is still secluded. He can only hope no one is paying too close attention to a common glaive leading Tenebrae's princess around by the arm or he's going to get an earful for leaving his post to play personal escort.
And she has her own image to maintain, he'd bet. The last minute has only made him more convinced everything isn't what it seems within the Niflheim party.]
You know, that wasn't really an answer.
[Light. Deceptively casual. His gaze betrays just how closely he's watching her, though, following her aborted attempt to catch her breath. A glaive's job is to protect the king. If he accepted every request for an audience without a reason, he wouldn't be very good at it.]