❛ why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? ❜
▊▋❀ ❪ hamilton • accepting. ❫
❛ Keladry -- ! ❜
One hand is splayed over his chest as if it is the only thing keeping his heart anchored to his soul after such a resounding shock. The wounded look has always been a hit or a miss, but that doesn’t stop him from trying, eyes glimmering with a manufactured hurt and lips parted in seemingly speechless distress.
Seemingly. He is Neal -- it would take a catastrophe to render him truly lost for words.
❛ After all these years you still can’t appreciate me for the one true gift I possess. I’m wilting, Mindelan. All my petals are falling off. Look at me -- I have never been this sad before and never shall be, again. You’ve rendered me more brown and dying than the harshest winter. ❜
He takes a little break from the running monologue ( a tour de force to be entirely honest, one of his best ) to take a delicate sip of wine from his glass. All the best and brightest minds can do little when dehydrated, you know. For a moment it looks as if he’s considering picking up where he left off, but he seems to think better of it ( or tires ) and when he speaks again, his tone is flat and wicked and know it all.
❛ Look, we both know this is the best plan, and we both know that you’re going to consider it for all of five seconds before forging out on your own and trying to save the whole world single handedly. At least when we’re out there slicing up whatever it is that needs slicing, I can comfortably say I told you so. ❜
