Tagged by @redwayfarers a while ago, but i've been quite absent from tumblr. Thank you for the tag!
No drawings this time, but i am rewriting the modern AU Taymar meet cute after months of watching writing advice videos haha
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"Are you serious?"
"Deadly." No traces of shame in his voice, as if being indulged was the natural order of things for him. Taelyn set the glass down with a soft clink and hoped it looked judgmental.
"That's… upsetting."
The man's face lit up from the inside like being called upsetting was the best news he'd heard all night. He leaned in, pushing further into their space than he had any business being until Taelyn could count the specks of the stray stubble around his chin. "You wanted something else?" he asked.
"I didn't want anything from you," Taelyn scoffed, leaning away. The idea was so far past possible it barely deserved the air, but the man's grin only widened. They set their chin higher and gave him the eyebrow. It had usually worked on people.
"Can't drink." He shrugged. "And you were trying to stare holes in me, so."
Taelyn turned on their stool with no hurry and gave him their full attention for the first time.
"Might have been the shirt." Chin on their hand, they dropped their gaze down the gaudy thing he was wearing and made a small, disturbed sound. "It's an assault on good taste. There are people here trying to have a nice evening, you know."
He laughed with his whole chest, loud enough that two people down the bar turned to them. His laugh was an abrasive sound, but so was fucking everything about him, and Taelyn fought the urge to check if they were being associated with any of it.
