It had the tone and the taste of flattery, everything she said, though the words themselves were not necessarily flattering. Or perhaps it was only him, that he did not find it a flattering thought to be left on a shelf and forgotten. It was not inaccurate, as these things went. "I do have a very pretty cover," he murmured, "and I cannot say I have been cracked in recent memory." He shifted his hips and the curve of his back so that her fingers would fit more comfortably against his skin.
"Perhaps less Chaucer," he said, "and more Shakespeare." Jean grinned, feeling quite clever to have thought of it. An appropriate enough metaphor, when once he had been scandalous and vulgar, when the world had changed around him to decide his trappings rendered him a gentleman. He sometimes wondered if it would amuse the man as much as it did Jean, to spout filth and have it confused with poetry. As much the vile creature as he had ever been, but now his manners marked him as otherwise. It worked out wonderfully in his favor, of course, because the world at large had become much less friendly toward vile creatures.
Though even now, some who ought to have known better could not help but be drawn to the monstrous. A wolf in sheep's clothing, however ill-fitting, had a certain appeal.
He would have been as pleased at Ruka's amusement even if it had been more subtle. Her laughter was welcome, dark sweetness alongside the validation that he was – in fact – hilarious. And a woman vibrating in his lap was not a bad side effect, as these things went. "Then it is a good thing I am here," he said, his grin nearly splitting his face, "so that you need not imagine." He nipped harmlessly at the skin of her shoulder, then kissed the same spot. "But you are much more virtuous than I am, valet de coeurs, when I have not even truths to tell."
A few, but memory was a fickle thing, and self-delusion much stronger and more common. He would not pretend to be immune.
"No?" he said. "But I am sure that if you tried, you could find for me a use or two. I am not incapable of being used, after all." He pressed his lips to her shoulder again, brushed them higher until he could kiss her pulse.
"Perhaps less Chaucer," he said, "and more Shakespeare." Jean grinned, feeling quite clever to have thought of it. An appropriate enough metaphor, when once he had been scandalous and vulgar, when the world had changed around him to decide his trappings rendered him a gentleman. He sometimes wondered if it would amuse the man as much as it did Jean, to spout filth and have it confused with poetry. As much the vile creature as he had ever been, but now his manners marked him as otherwise. It worked out wonderfully in his favor, of course, because the world at large had become much less friendly toward vile creatures.
Though even now, some who ought to have known better could not help but be drawn to the monstrous. A wolf in sheep's clothing, however ill-fitting, had a certain appeal.
He would have been as pleased at Ruka's amusement even if it had been more subtle. Her laughter was welcome, dark sweetness alongside the validation that he was – in fact – hilarious. And a woman vibrating in his lap was not a bad side effect, as these things went. "Then it is a good thing I am here," he said, his grin nearly splitting his face, "so that you need not imagine." He nipped harmlessly at the skin of her shoulder, then kissed the same spot. "But you are much more virtuous than I am, valet de coeurs, when I have not even truths to tell."
A few, but memory was a fickle thing, and self-delusion much stronger and more common. He would not pretend to be immune.
"No?" he said. "But I am sure that if you tried, you could find for me a use or two. I am not incapable of being used, after all." He pressed his lips to her shoulder again, brushed them higher until he could kiss her pulse.
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