Sophi just smiled and nodded. She knew that to ask after a gentleman was not proper, and most of the time when she did the girls would just dance around the question or just giggle. Perhaps it was a secret meaning to ask after a male. Something that only the younger people knew and understood. Like the difference between and escort and a 'bo'. What ever a 'bo' was, it sounded like a horrible position.
He seemed to hide himself well, and remove himself from feeling and the words he spoke would have hurt if she did not know this about the man already. Just because one did not show expression or present themselves with the right state of being, that did not mean there was no care behind those eyes. Dark and cold, yet she knew him not to be. "Just because it is your position to-....care for books, it does not mean that I should not be thankful for your hard work. You could have had one of the girls bring them to me, yet you delivered them yourself. For that, I am very thankful."
She grasped her hands together and settled them on her lap. There was a strange desire to take his hand, yet she had been told that physical touching was a strange thing that was not done on the island among the people. "Does it bother you that I call you lord, Arjun? It seems...proper. But if you do not mind my informal address, then I would use your name."
She could not see the way he was fidgeting as he warmed his hands in the sleeves of his robes, but she gave a little laugh as he played along with her joke, if only dryly. "Oh come now, books can be very fortuitous to the right buyer. There has to be an old tome or scroll that is worth my weight in gold to the right person." He had agreed to go with her, so she wasted no time in moving then.
Blankets were moved away from her legs and she carefully swung them both off the bed. The skirt of her ivory nightgown covering her legs from the knees up, and then long, thick black socks on her feet. The bandages and bruises would not be seen, but for the small expanse of exposed flesh between the two items of clothing. What she wore was soft and warm, albeit a little stain here and there or a patched up hole. It was clothes to cover her body, so Sophi did not seem to mind that Arjun's attire was much better than her own 'rags'. "I would not have any other but you to guide me, Arjun. But lets go now, before the tea gets here."
If he moved to help her up or not, she placed her hand to his shoulder and slipped from the bed. Her feet, at first, dangled over the edge. Just enough that she could not touch the ground. The bed was tall, perhaps two and a half feet from the floor so getting in and out required her to climb or let gravity take effect. "Oh....slippers. I know I have a pair around here...." she looked away from his eyes and down to the ground, looking for where they might have been kicked or placed.
He seemed to hide himself well, and remove himself from feeling and the words he spoke would have hurt if she did not know this about the man already. Just because one did not show expression or present themselves with the right state of being, that did not mean there was no care behind those eyes. Dark and cold, yet she knew him not to be. "Just because it is your position to-....care for books, it does not mean that I should not be thankful for your hard work. You could have had one of the girls bring them to me, yet you delivered them yourself. For that, I am very thankful."
She grasped her hands together and settled them on her lap. There was a strange desire to take his hand, yet she had been told that physical touching was a strange thing that was not done on the island among the people. "Does it bother you that I call you lord, Arjun? It seems...proper. But if you do not mind my informal address, then I would use your name."
She could not see the way he was fidgeting as he warmed his hands in the sleeves of his robes, but she gave a little laugh as he played along with her joke, if only dryly. "Oh come now, books can be very fortuitous to the right buyer. There has to be an old tome or scroll that is worth my weight in gold to the right person." He had agreed to go with her, so she wasted no time in moving then.
Blankets were moved away from her legs and she carefully swung them both off the bed. The skirt of her ivory nightgown covering her legs from the knees up, and then long, thick black socks on her feet. The bandages and bruises would not be seen, but for the small expanse of exposed flesh between the two items of clothing. What she wore was soft and warm, albeit a little stain here and there or a patched up hole. It was clothes to cover her body, so Sophi did not seem to mind that Arjun's attire was much better than her own 'rags'. "I would not have any other but you to guide me, Arjun. But lets go now, before the tea gets here."
If he moved to help her up or not, she placed her hand to his shoulder and slipped from the bed. Her feet, at first, dangled over the edge. Just enough that she could not touch the ground. The bed was tall, perhaps two and a half feet from the floor so getting in and out required her to climb or let gravity take effect. "Oh....slippers. I know I have a pair around here...." she looked away from his eyes and down to the ground, looking for where they might have been kicked or placed.
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