Alex's mouth went dry as he proceeded to strip in front of her. "A dossier would've sufficed," she said dryly, but hazel eyes ate him and his cybernetics up anyway while her brain wondered if she was going to have to stop the clothes from disappearing at some point. In the end, it was just the jacket, made all the more personal a show by his maneuvering her--again--to touch.
"Mostly for hacking, then? Access to systems, communicating with AIs, that sort of thing?" Heat radiated from him like a miniature furnace, and curiosity got the better of her. Instead of pulling away, as her survival instinct 'suggested', Alex drew closer, using the index finger on her other hand to trace a hot, shiny trail over his skin. Her examination was more clinical than anything; she'd once been handed a fancy engine and asked to determine how it worked, and now, as then, there was nothing deterring her from sating her curiosity, especially getting her hands dirty. But then Charles mentioned bio-electrics and her interest piqued further, though her answering question was absent-minded and musing, rather than focused his way as she continued to study him. "And what do the 'accessories' do? Because mine are pretty much standard. Even the low-tech nonsense so's I keep a low profile. Wrench? Check. Screwdriver? Check. Collection of electronic lockpicks and digital spanner-fits for digging into the maintenance tunnels? Check and double-check. And I guess then there's my Agency comms. But this..."
"This is art." Her eyebrows furrowed as she concentrated on following the path to his fingers where the leads were embedded more deeply. Reaching the end, she whirled her finger around the last tendril and added musingly, "It must've cost him a fortune."
Charles' heat was scorching her palm by now, and his words finally registered through her fascination. See more? She flicked a look toward his face and blushed furiously, feeling every useless freckle on her fair cheeks. Tugging away, Alex clasped the fingers he'd captured with her other hand. "I'm sorry." A phrase she rarely uttered these days. "I do that sometimes. Get lost in the how's. I...I wanted to know about you, is all. I'm guessing your people had some sort of file on you, but mine apparently don't have the same policy. I like to know the people I'm required to trust my life to."
"Mostly for hacking, then? Access to systems, communicating with AIs, that sort of thing?" Heat radiated from him like a miniature furnace, and curiosity got the better of her. Instead of pulling away, as her survival instinct 'suggested', Alex drew closer, using the index finger on her other hand to trace a hot, shiny trail over his skin. Her examination was more clinical than anything; she'd once been handed a fancy engine and asked to determine how it worked, and now, as then, there was nothing deterring her from sating her curiosity, especially getting her hands dirty. But then Charles mentioned bio-electrics and her interest piqued further, though her answering question was absent-minded and musing, rather than focused his way as she continued to study him. "And what do the 'accessories' do? Because mine are pretty much standard. Even the low-tech nonsense so's I keep a low profile. Wrench? Check. Screwdriver? Check. Collection of electronic lockpicks and digital spanner-fits for digging into the maintenance tunnels? Check and double-check. And I guess then there's my Agency comms. But this..."
"This is art." Her eyebrows furrowed as she concentrated on following the path to his fingers where the leads were embedded more deeply. Reaching the end, she whirled her finger around the last tendril and added musingly, "It must've cost him a fortune."
Charles' heat was scorching her palm by now, and his words finally registered through her fascination. See more? She flicked a look toward his face and blushed furiously, feeling every useless freckle on her fair cheeks. Tugging away, Alex clasped the fingers he'd captured with her other hand. "I'm sorry." A phrase she rarely uttered these days. "I do that sometimes. Get lost in the how's. I...I wanted to know about you, is all. I'm guessing your people had some sort of file on you, but mine apparently don't have the same policy. I like to know the people I'm required to trust my life to."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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