playing house

Abasi

Grace is just weakness

When Loren smiled (an expression with such genuine emotion Abasi didn't know where to look)and seemed to finally accept his position in the world as a handsome person, Abasi nodded, glad the matter was sorted.

He had not expected the compliment to be returned back to him and he, despite his own thoughts on how truths should be accepted, found himself smiling. "Thank you."

The conversation continued - on Loren's previous acquaintances with obvious bad taste, on how one should consider their looks as they were important when dealing with nearly everything; he found that with the make up accentuating his eyes Loren seemed somehow much more alive, more animated. When they parted, Loren to go and get back to his tea perhaps and Abasi to go and rest (for the Blight sometimes still exhausted him, pulling at his veins and bones like a weight) he left wondering if he might have made a friend.

Or so I've been told