"Not only," he said, "but it is pretty ones I like the best. Pretty men and handsome women – but it is all a euphemism, I suppose. I enjoy drawing laughter from the same people that I would enjoy causing to orgasm, for what must be very similar reasons." Though not entirely similar, as laughter did not feed him with the intensity that an orgasm would, and was thus a slightly less selfish impulse.
"But what is it that makes a person pretty, I wonder," he said, though one might imagine someone as vain as he was to have considered the question thoroughly. "Wanting me makes a person quite pretty," he shrugged. "Vulnerability is pretty, as are people who think that they are not. People who look… just-so. Whether deliberate or not." It was very vague, but he had been alive a long time, after all. He had watched beauty standards rise and fall, ever in flux. His nose had been fashionable, and then it had not; his pallor had been fashionable, and then not, and then again. A widow's peak had once been a very desirable thing, and he had found it desirable when it was deemed such. He'd once been enticed by ankles and now he was enticed by thighs, and overall there was very little he could not find attractive in some way or another. "I hope this does not lessen the compliment for you."
Wretched device. He regretted thoroughly its purchase, though it had led to at least one delightful interlude. Awful little thing. "Ah – but you have proven my point, you see. For it was accidental, and was therefore enjoyable to you; it is deliberate humor which is enjoyable to both parties." He wrinkled his nose when she tapped it, though not with genuine displeasure, that being a much sharper and subtler thing where he was concerned.
As she relaxed, he used it as an opportunity to pull her closer, coax her head onto his shoulder and her body against his chest. It was suspiciously cuddly, for someone who seemed so prone to darker passions, wrapping his arms around her with a thoughtful hum. "You have found at least one spectacularly handsome man," he suggested, "which all on its own surely would have been enough to render all the trouble worth it." This was not a particularly fair answer to a genuine question, but he'd never been good at being fair.
"Your having decided to invest in real estate before the meeting of this stunning specimen, however, suggests that you have found something else to bind your boots to this ground. Maybe only curiosity, but that is not a fire that fuels itself." He nuzzled gently at her hair, as if they were already comfortable lovers and not newly met. "Whatever you have found," he said, "it has not stopped you searching."
"But what is it that makes a person pretty, I wonder," he said, though one might imagine someone as vain as he was to have considered the question thoroughly. "Wanting me makes a person quite pretty," he shrugged. "Vulnerability is pretty, as are people who think that they are not. People who look… just-so. Whether deliberate or not." It was very vague, but he had been alive a long time, after all. He had watched beauty standards rise and fall, ever in flux. His nose had been fashionable, and then it had not; his pallor had been fashionable, and then not, and then again. A widow's peak had once been a very desirable thing, and he had found it desirable when it was deemed such. He'd once been enticed by ankles and now he was enticed by thighs, and overall there was very little he could not find attractive in some way or another. "I hope this does not lessen the compliment for you."
Wretched device. He regretted thoroughly its purchase, though it had led to at least one delightful interlude. Awful little thing. "Ah – but you have proven my point, you see. For it was accidental, and was therefore enjoyable to you; it is deliberate humor which is enjoyable to both parties." He wrinkled his nose when she tapped it, though not with genuine displeasure, that being a much sharper and subtler thing where he was concerned.
As she relaxed, he used it as an opportunity to pull her closer, coax her head onto his shoulder and her body against his chest. It was suspiciously cuddly, for someone who seemed so prone to darker passions, wrapping his arms around her with a thoughtful hum. "You have found at least one spectacularly handsome man," he suggested, "which all on its own surely would have been enough to render all the trouble worth it." This was not a particularly fair answer to a genuine question, but he'd never been good at being fair.
"Your having decided to invest in real estate before the meeting of this stunning specimen, however, suggests that you have found something else to bind your boots to this ground. Maybe only curiosity, but that is not a fire that fuels itself." He nuzzled gently at her hair, as if they were already comfortable lovers and not newly met. "Whatever you have found," he said, "it has not stopped you searching."
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