// smile like you mean it //
“I should.” He muses, of coming to see her during Longheat. And he does truly make a mental note to visit her then, even as he offers his gentle tease of being immune to fire. “We cannot be harmed by it, no. And it is quite beneficial for us should we turn into gargoyles.” Just in case she’d ever need that information (if any of them turned to stone at least Flora would have an idea how to revive them).
He’s content to let her imagine whatever she wishes, (and yes, he does smoke, but distinctly only from a tobacco pipe, but that’s neither here nor there) offering his lap for her shortly after settling so that she doesn’t have to feel the uncomfortable and hard ground beneath her.
The grin that’s offered to her as he inclines his head as she does melt against him is even sharper this close, his body radiating a fair amount of heat even as his tail sweeps around the other side of her to dip the spaded end in the hot springs. “So I keep hearing. Alas, the last time I took a dip was in the Grounds and it was far too cold.” He shivers for emphasis.
Her question over his scarred mouth (or lack there of) has him cocking his head toward her as his smile widens a fraction. “Why is that, Flora, dear?”
He’s content to let her imagine whatever she wishes, (and yes, he does smoke, but distinctly only from a tobacco pipe, but that’s neither here nor there) offering his lap for her shortly after settling so that she doesn’t have to feel the uncomfortable and hard ground beneath her.
The grin that’s offered to her as he inclines his head as she does melt against him is even sharper this close, his body radiating a fair amount of heat even as his tail sweeps around the other side of her to dip the spaded end in the hot springs. “So I keep hearing. Alas, the last time I took a dip was in the Grounds and it was far too cold.” He shivers for emphasis.
Her question over his scarred mouth (or lack there of) has him cocking his head toward her as his smile widens a fraction. “Why is that, Flora, dear?”
Astaroth
// take a chance and you could seize it //
