You'd have to go to another city if you were going to bed anyone else, you know. I dunno if you've noticed but a lot of the Salamanders tend to have their noses in a book, plants or some sort of animal they're studying instead of paying attention to what's going on around them. Sometimes all three at once.
[ He hasn't pulled his head away yet, so Zephyr slides his hand further up his face and cards his fingers through that brilliant sea of red. Even if he gets exasperated with how he tends to wind up with so much of it in his face and on his pillow in the morning, he'll always be amazed at one thing:
How soft it is.
His mind drifts to a time when he'd do this with her, too. And Law. It was his way of connecting with them by doing something so trivial. His own was never long enough to toy with, so he'd simply make due with theirs. ]
I don't know if you know this or not but you're hardly the first person to call me stubborn. I heard it weekly back in Ulzebek, and I hear it in Salamander's voice here, too. And many of the other Salamanders. Even the old woman down the street calls me stubborn. If you're... If you're willing to put up with that and be patient, then...
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[ He hasn't pulled his head away yet, so Zephyr slides his hand further up his face and cards his fingers through that brilliant sea of red. Even if he gets exasperated with how he tends to wind up with so much of it in his face and on his pillow in the morning, he'll always be amazed at one thing:
How soft it is.
His mind drifts to a time when he'd do this with her, too. And Law. It was his way of connecting with them by doing something so trivial. His own was never long enough to toy with, so he'd simply make due with theirs. ]
I don't know if you know this or not but you're hardly the first person to call me stubborn. I heard it weekly back in Ulzebek, and I hear it in Salamander's voice here, too. And many of the other Salamanders. Even the old woman down the street calls me stubborn. If you're... If you're willing to put up with that and be patient, then...
[ A half-shrug, and Zephyr exhales. ]
Close your eyes for a minute.