" we can't keep doing this. "
dialogue prompts | accepting
such a simple sentence, so few words. and yet there was so much weight to each & every one of them that he could not decide what to focus on first, which one to be tormented by more.
we. him & i. us. there was a sense of intimacy there, or so he liked to think ... though it brought little consolation when followed by such an ugly declaration, one that he was adamant on pretending not to have comprehended for now.
aegon walked further into the quiet room he had found the stormlander in, assuming to have irritated the other with his ... attention, back at the feast they had just abandoned in favor of this odd confrontation.
"doing what ?" the king questioned, voice low & soft, an uncharacteristic shade of innocence to his wide magentas. he had slipped into that persona again—the one that was as irritating as it could be beguiling, leaning back against the closed door as though he was afraid the other might walk out without answering his disingenuous question.
but as the silence stretched on the innocence began to dissipate like smoke. the corners of his usually sullen lips twitched upwards into an unsteady smile, voice sharp & gravelly when he spoke again.
"i command you to say it. what is it that you wish to stop doing with me ? say it, see if it sounds as good as it feels ... maybe then you would reconsider your folly."
