Mateo
"Oh gods no," Mateo says readily as he continues to assemble the flowerbed with Kaisel, joining him in making small hollows for the seedlings. (And the other man is correct; he seems to have an innate sense for if the plants will end up crowding each other, and fixes any spacing he deems unworthy). "Remi was the scary side of Ludo. I suppose he could still play copycat with other demigod powers, but Ludo mostly had him kill people when it was their time to go."
Shrugging - growing up with that sort of shit gives you a lot of psychological callouses against it - and reaching for the first of the seedlings, he starts to arrange their little pots in adjacent rows; all but the mint, which he hands to Kaisel like it's a bomb in need of deactivation. "Listen," he says of the blunders that the other man wants to avoid, "unless you swagger in and start to needle my parents about their lives and blunders and..." He lets out a low whistle to stop himself.
"It was like watching predators size each other up." Lowkey hot too, from where Mateo had been relaxing and drinking and eating sandwiches, but whatever.
"I would like that," he trills as a cheerful change of subject. "I have been trying to do better about visiting from Stormbreak. So even if this goes horribly wrong, maybe you, me and Flora can stiill get together?"
Shrugging - growing up with that sort of shit gives you a lot of psychological callouses against it - and reaching for the first of the seedlings, he starts to arrange their little pots in adjacent rows; all but the mint, which he hands to Kaisel like it's a bomb in need of deactivation. "Listen," he says of the blunders that the other man wants to avoid, "unless you swagger in and start to needle my parents about their lives and blunders and..." He lets out a low whistle to stop himself.
"It was like watching predators size each other up." Lowkey hot too, from where Mateo had been relaxing and drinking and eating sandwiches, but whatever.
"I would like that," he trills as a cheerful change of subject. "I have been trying to do better about visiting from Stormbreak. So even if this goes horribly wrong, maybe you, me and Flora can stiill get together?"
I'm a scholar and a gentleman
And I don't usually fall when I try to stand
And I don't usually fall when I try to stand
