Was it temptation or pity that drew her in? It didn't matter to him. As long as she stayed, as long as he got his chance. He turned his head to kiss her knuckles, all sweet and piteous.
Though he could just have easily done the same to kiss her mouth, he tilted his cheek toward her and allowed himself to be kissed chastely.
Memories. More valuable if she was older, but she seemed the kind of have more memories than most her age. She must have had at least some powerful memories, wronged and cursed as she was. The trouble was in the taking of them, as he could not simply pluck them from her head -- as much as he might have preferred that. Nothing could ever be easy, it seemed; the tragedy of having to work for his dinner.
"Tell me these memories, then," he said, "and I shall take them from you gladly, take the pain of them as my own. Or would you have me take all of them? Let you start your life anew without the burden of the past?"
It was cheating a little to make it sound a favor, as if he was giving as much as taking. Trying to get away with an unfair bargain, weasel out of having to give her any real satisfaction.
Though he could just have easily done the same to kiss her mouth, he tilted his cheek toward her and allowed himself to be kissed chastely.
Memories. More valuable if she was older, but she seemed the kind of have more memories than most her age. She must have had at least some powerful memories, wronged and cursed as she was. The trouble was in the taking of them, as he could not simply pluck them from her head -- as much as he might have preferred that. Nothing could ever be easy, it seemed; the tragedy of having to work for his dinner.
"Tell me these memories, then," he said, "and I shall take them from you gladly, take the pain of them as my own. Or would you have me take all of them? Let you start your life anew without the burden of the past?"
It was cheating a little to make it sound a favor, as if he was giving as much as taking. Trying to get away with an unfair bargain, weasel out of having to give her any real satisfaction.
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