playing house

Abasi

Grace is just weakness

"I told you as much downstairs." Abasi replied plainly to Loren's question. Would he ask twenty times? "While you could put more effort into accentuating your appearance, it is fine in itself." He was not particularly one to fall for good looks right away, but he had always been able to evaluate people in one quick snap. It was obvious to him, just a fact, that Loren was handsome.

He looked at himself in the mirror. There were things he could criticise - he had never cared for the bags under his eyes or the shape of his jaw, but he could also see that in a whole picture, and especially to someone else, he was hardly ugly. "Why tell yourself you are unattractive anyway? If it is true you will depress yourself and if it is false, you will just look a fool."

Or so I've been told