bury me in satin

Adam Some things you do just to see how bad they'll make you feel Sometimes you try to freeze time 'til the slots are a blur of spinning wheels Grinning now that Amalia was playing along, Adam wore his own expression of mock offence. "C'mon, I could design it for you? The neckline could go down to your belly button and the collar could be a metre tall! Of course, we'd have to do up your hair in a beehive..." Playfully he held a strand of her hair up over her head, as if planning out some kind of structure. "Of course I'm dancing. What's a wedding without dancing? You gotta convince Deimos to dip me, though." He nudged her, though his smile faded at the question about his own wedding; it was hardly a fun topic. Still, it was helping to distract her so he moved to look at her and make sure she was comfy before he spoke, beginning with a shake of his head. "Nah, that was Heidi's thing. I had to wear this really boring uniform thing they put rich boys in, and --" He actually snorted a little laugh, remembering this specific detail. "--They put fake medals on it, so they could pretend I was some war hero from far away. That was better for their precious girl than a highwayman she actually happened to like." But I am just a broken machine And I do things that I don't really mean