"I enjoy making pretty people laugh," he said. "Is there anyone who does not? Assuming it is deliberate, at least. Accidentally leading others to laugh is much less enjoyable, I fear." One did not, he thought, need to have a nature of the kind that he did for that to be the case. Laughter by its nature was a contagious form of joy; he liked being made to laugh just as much. Though that may have been as much a matter of trust, trusting himself to express himself so in the presence of another. A chuckle was one thing, something low and restrained and dignified, but the sort of laugh that bared teeth was a different matter altogether.
He'd been more free with his laughter, when he was younger, but he'd reveled in terror then. Hardly the civilized beast he was now, though perhaps there had been more honesty in it. Cruel and reckless, lacking utterly in the subtlety that was now the whole of his trade.
What a sad little sigh that was, so neatly inviting a kiss into the space it left. It was not a deliberate invitation, so he did not answer it. Instead he replaced the hand that held hers with his left, the hand on which he did not file his nails to a more respectable appearance. Still immaculate, but these he let grow to the sharp points that was their wont, deadly things nearly white enough to match his teeth. He let the tip of his thumbnail trace the faint blue line of her blood as she spoke, a light enough touch that it was barely felt.
That same hand abandoned its ministrations as she finished, the pad of his thumb stroking the edge of her jaw. Not quite cupping her face, not quite tangling his fingers in her hair, fingertips pressed along her neck just beneath her ear. Blood had no call for him, not being the sort of life on which he fed, but the beat of a heart and the throb of a pulse had an appeal independent of its function.
"And have you found something?" he wondered. "Or nothing?"
He'd been more free with his laughter, when he was younger, but he'd reveled in terror then. Hardly the civilized beast he was now, though perhaps there had been more honesty in it. Cruel and reckless, lacking utterly in the subtlety that was now the whole of his trade.
What a sad little sigh that was, so neatly inviting a kiss into the space it left. It was not a deliberate invitation, so he did not answer it. Instead he replaced the hand that held hers with his left, the hand on which he did not file his nails to a more respectable appearance. Still immaculate, but these he let grow to the sharp points that was their wont, deadly things nearly white enough to match his teeth. He let the tip of his thumbnail trace the faint blue line of her blood as she spoke, a light enough touch that it was barely felt.
That same hand abandoned its ministrations as she finished, the pad of his thumb stroking the edge of her jaw. Not quite cupping her face, not quite tangling his fingers in her hair, fingertips pressed along her neck just beneath her ear. Blood had no call for him, not being the sort of life on which he fed, but the beat of a heart and the throb of a pulse had an appeal independent of its function.
"And have you found something?" he wondered. "Or nothing?"
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