no longer able to carry the vestige of blushing virgin, his exclamation shouldn’t make porcelain flesh flush pink. bereft of any ability to deny him (oh, one look upon his smug, smiling face before they’d boarded their ill-fated boat so many months ago now and she’d been lost from that moment), evie encourages him with an amused grin before doe eyes drop to the white, nearly sheer piece of fabric covering her lithe frame. there’s nothing between the cloth and her skin - no undergarments to speak of - and if he had the desire to push his hands beneath the fabric, to touch and take what she just as eagerly desired to give him? “what, pray tell, rick o’connell, would you like to do to me? because, if you recall, i am a lady, and there are certain things a lady such as myself should probably not be privy to,” she remarks lightly, but makes no move to draw herself away from the heavy darkness of his gaze upon her. they’d fought mummies and won. whatever innocence evie previously held (wondrous intent not included) was forever tainted by the forced kiss of a decaying mummy’s mouth against her own. sometimes, she wonders if she’ll ever shake the feeling. oh, putting on a brave front is easy when rick is astoundingly brave enough for the both of them, but sometimes, when the lights are snuffed out and darkness ascends upon their shared room, she can still feel mummified hands gripping her, stealing her away from jonathan, from rick. “oh, don’t be shy on me now,” evie teases, effortlessly brushing away those unwelcome thoughts in favor of what debauchery plagues her boyfriend’s mind.