stay your pretty eyes on course
As surprised as he is quietly pleased to have his glasses returned to his hands instead of directly onto his face, Niki accepts them and tucks one of the arms inside his shirt with an ease that suggests habit. (Because of course she isn't actually blurry - he'd meant it when he said they were just for reading). "You are too kind," he says, taking another sip of coffee and setting it back down again.
Niki has known Flora long enough now to know when there's a trap waiting behind her smile, to know when distance is purposeful, like the pause before the curtain rises at the theatre, and whether consciously or not, his eyes narrow playfully and he waits for her to snare him. Which she does, and he reacts entirely as she might have hoped, blushing to the tips of his ears and looking thoroughly flustered.
"Yes. Well," he says, because whether or not he's familiar with it, Niki does have tea about that night. (Alas, it's probably not what Flora is hoping). "I was too inebriated to get upstairs," he explains, "and so Sunjata carried me - without asking first, might I add." And that in itself had contributed to a large part of his embarrassment.
"He took me to my room and I... I think he was a dog or a cat? I fell asleep."
Niki has known Flora long enough now to know when there's a trap waiting behind her smile, to know when distance is purposeful, like the pause before the curtain rises at the theatre, and whether consciously or not, his eyes narrow playfully and he waits for her to snare him. Which she does, and he reacts entirely as she might have hoped, blushing to the tips of his ears and looking thoroughly flustered.
"Yes. Well," he says, because whether or not he's familiar with it, Niki does have tea about that night. (Alas, it's probably not what Flora is hoping). "I was too inebriated to get upstairs," he explains, "and so Sunjata carried me - without asking first, might I add." And that in itself had contributed to a large part of his embarrassment.
"He took me to my room and I... I think he was a dog or a cat? I fell asleep."
Niki
I guess I never really faced my fears before
