@wrathfl said, ❛ the body is like a battery. every now and then, you need to recharge a little. ❜ (bonus: she's passing a glass of brandy to him. )
On one hand, he hates disturbances. Every little creak and shuffle of the door sliding open and shut disturbed his peace, wasting the previous hour of focusing. It’s the way people seemed to barge into his spaces with very little concern towards his privacy– that was what made SIEBREN’S stay in TALON so prison-like and suffocating. Even being placed as far down in the facility as he was, it felt he could never truly escape the prying eyes of others.
Yet… on the other hand, no one brought offerings in return for receiving his council.
Serpentlike lavender eyes follow her silhouette intently as the brunette shuffles through the maze-like lair that was his laboratory, ready to criticize, and yet receiving no opportunity to do so, when she rounds loosely stacked paperwork and machine-cluttered tables to approach his workbench. Initially, her remark earns her a lethargic rolling of his eyes– but when the glass is waved in front of him, allowing the acrid tang of alcohol to invade his proximity, it’s as if all malevolence falls away from him. The weighty saturation of the ANOMALY’S influence on his surroundings still remains, but it doesn’t hang over her as oppressively as before.
“... I wish it was. At least a battery would hold its charge…” SIEBREN murmurs tiredly, allowing himself to lean back in his computer chair from where he’d been rigidly leaning over yet another programming dataset.
He almost doesn’t want to drink it; it felt like it should be savored, rather than enjoyed.
But he isn’t like his other half– indulgences were meant to be indulged in, not savored.
And just like that, the golden fluid disappears and the glass is placed down firmly, prompting a subtle shudder from the astrophysicist in question as the bitterness settles, burning his senses yet clearing them simultaneously.
“... What…. Is the occasion…?”