if you try and chase the sun you're never gonna catch it
Vesper’s grin sharpens the moment her middle finger goes up, wolfish and pleased as if she’d just thrown him a gift instead of an insult. It stays there while she turns, his gaze shameless in the way it takes her in from hat brim to battered boots as his hands slide into his coat pockets like he’s settling in for a show.
"That’s quite the tall order," he drawls, the words curling with amusement. On the wall beside her, his shadows stir again, stretching up the boards in long, inky strokes until they drape lazily across the spot her next pass of the brush would claim. They linger there, flexing slow, as if daring her to see whether paint could smother shadow.
At her talk of getting dirty, his mouth crooks into something drier. "Might be able t’find someone with those qualifications," he muses, eyes still tipped toward her work. "If I can promise ’em a shower after." The glance he tips her way after that is pure invitation to decide whether he'd make use of said shower regardless of how the painting went.
"That’s quite the tall order," he drawls, the words curling with amusement. On the wall beside her, his shadows stir again, stretching up the boards in long, inky strokes until they drape lazily across the spot her next pass of the brush would claim. They linger there, flexing slow, as if daring her to see whether paint could smother shadow.
At her talk of getting dirty, his mouth crooks into something drier. "Might be able t’find someone with those qualifications," he muses, eyes still tipped toward her work. "If I can promise ’em a shower after." The glance he tips her way after that is pure invitation to decide whether he'd make use of said shower regardless of how the painting went.
And now it's turning out to be the worst of my bad habits
☆ has a pale star tattoo beneath his left eye, and freckle-sized constellations move across his skin
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
