[ It's not said to needle -- in fact, the tone is guiding more than anything, like she's expecting him to fill in a blank that he should know. She is no stranger to men with delusions of grandeur, men who claim to kill God, men who lead cults, men who spin webs for others to fall into before they reach their deaths. Anything less than that power now bores her, and her attention is rarely spent anywhere that she can't see it.
But Michael makes her laugh and she rises gracefully to return the hairbrush to its shelf, comes back with a handful of honestly strange tools, compared to the ask. Colored pencils, a lighter, a regular paintbrush from a set of watercolors. She adds a cup of water and then drags her chair closer to him. ]
Hardly what I thought you'd ask, but I'm happy to share all the same. [ She flicks the lighter to life and begins the process of apparently burning the tip from a black colored pencil. ] Any preferences?
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[ It's not said to needle -- in fact, the tone is guiding more than anything, like she's expecting him to fill in a blank that he should know. She is no stranger to men with delusions of grandeur, men who claim to kill God, men who lead cults, men who spin webs for others to fall into before they reach their deaths. Anything less than that power now bores her, and her attention is rarely spent anywhere that she can't see it.
But Michael makes her laugh and she rises gracefully to return the hairbrush to its shelf, comes back with a handful of honestly strange tools, compared to the ask. Colored pencils, a lighter, a regular paintbrush from a set of watercolors. She adds a cup of water and then drags her chair closer to him. ]
Hardly what I thought you'd ask, but I'm happy to share all the same. [ She flicks the lighter to life and begins the process of apparently burning the tip from a black colored pencil. ] Any preferences?