He asks where she lives, and Asena’s eyes narrow with suspicion. The question is invasive, but it is his charming tone that makes her most wary. He sounds confident, and almost as though he’s amused by her offense. Taking him up on his offer is done without thinking; it is easier to go along with his suggestion while devoting most of her attention to thinking of a way to politely extricate herself from this conversation. Her eyes find the place on his shoulder where the purple bone emerges from his black skin, and she traces its smooth surface to where it joins the more jagged protrusions along his spine.
Those look dangerous, Asena realizes. They’re more than a just a lovely colored accessory, and she wonders if he has cause to use them often. She is still thinking of this when he speaks again, and the young mare realizes she’s been watching him for some time.
First he implies she looks vagrant, and now he wants to be invited back to her home?
A good reason to leave dies on her lips at his warm laughter. She still thinks he is rude, and much too forward, but her overlong inspection has made her very aware that he’s more than a decent catch. There’s something else, too, something that feels like lightning in her veins. His laugh is a low rumble, as appealing to Asena as the blue-purple fingers of electricity that dance suddenly in the sky around them.
She is not entirely sure if it is natural or an illusion of her own making, drawn in likeness to what she’d compared her sensations too. It is a reminder to reel herself in though; she has no desire for the headache that comes of letting her magic run wild. Asena takes a breath, and her still-narrowed eyes have not softened.
“You seem the sort to get bored in Ischia.” She says at last. “and I don’t want to be the one held responsible when you do.” Responsible for whatever trouble he might cause if he were to get bored, she thinks, but also responsible for recruiting him to a place where the most exciting daily happenings were the comings and goings of the tides.
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will I remember to put a quote here before i post?
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