He didn't know what he'd expected. More of that blushing, maybe. Exclamations of offense. A slap in the face. Leaving a huff.
All of the above, though maybe not necessarily in that particular order.
She was taking it all very much in stride, instead. Which was absolutely not what he'd expected. Usually the sorts of women that didn't take offense to that kind of talk went in the other direction instead – enthusiastic in ways that occasionally made him change his mind.
Not that he was the kind to balk at a woman who'd been around a time or twelve. But sometimes there were… health concerns.
She was neither of the things he might have guessed, if he had cared to guess. If anything, she seemed almost… affectionate? He was pretty sure that was what this was. He did not have a lot of experience with these sorts of gestures, lacing her fingers with his and resting her head on his shoulder. It was all very intimate in a very nonsexual sort of way, which made it weird and uncomfortable and yet more confusing.
"Is that… unusual?" he asked, unsure what to make of her statement. Could she usually read people's thoughts? If so, why not his? Not that he wasn't thankful as hell for that fact.
"Neither do mine," he said, "but they're mine." He could have clarified further, but he didn't quite know how and didn't know if he wanted to. Outsiders were different, with different standards. He'd never look at a woman from Dinétah the way he looked at women from outside – and he'd never let a man get away with looking at his sister the way they looked at damn near everyone.
Was she… offering to bathe him?
It seemed like she was offering to bathe him.
Which was not, perhaps, completely uncalled for, under the circumstances. He didn't think anyone had ever asked to touch his hair, either, and he couldn't decide just how he felt about that. Some part of him recoiled from the idea, for the same reason the reverse appealed to him. It sounded intimate, the way all this hand-holding was intimate, intimate like being touched rather than touching. "Is this a trade you're suggesting?" he wondered, because she had not actually given an answer one way or the other, and that was a context where her suggestion made some sense.
Hell, if the only price he had to pay for doing filthy things to her was letting her wash it off him afterward, that was something of a bargain. If a slightly offensive one, for the theoretical implication that he was particularly in need of it.
"I'm real touched," he added, a faint curl to his mouth.
All of the above, though maybe not necessarily in that particular order.
She was taking it all very much in stride, instead. Which was absolutely not what he'd expected. Usually the sorts of women that didn't take offense to that kind of talk went in the other direction instead – enthusiastic in ways that occasionally made him change his mind.
Not that he was the kind to balk at a woman who'd been around a time or twelve. But sometimes there were… health concerns.
She was neither of the things he might have guessed, if he had cared to guess. If anything, she seemed almost… affectionate? He was pretty sure that was what this was. He did not have a lot of experience with these sorts of gestures, lacing her fingers with his and resting her head on his shoulder. It was all very intimate in a very nonsexual sort of way, which made it weird and uncomfortable and yet more confusing.
"Is that… unusual?" he asked, unsure what to make of her statement. Could she usually read people's thoughts? If so, why not his? Not that he wasn't thankful as hell for that fact.
"Neither do mine," he said, "but they're mine." He could have clarified further, but he didn't quite know how and didn't know if he wanted to. Outsiders were different, with different standards. He'd never look at a woman from Dinétah the way he looked at women from outside – and he'd never let a man get away with looking at his sister the way they looked at damn near everyone.
Was she… offering to bathe him?
It seemed like she was offering to bathe him.
Which was not, perhaps, completely uncalled for, under the circumstances. He didn't think anyone had ever asked to touch his hair, either, and he couldn't decide just how he felt about that. Some part of him recoiled from the idea, for the same reason the reverse appealed to him. It sounded intimate, the way all this hand-holding was intimate, intimate like being touched rather than touching. "Is this a trade you're suggesting?" he wondered, because she had not actually given an answer one way or the other, and that was a context where her suggestion made some sense.
Hell, if the only price he had to pay for doing filthy things to her was letting her wash it off him afterward, that was something of a bargain. If a slightly offensive one, for the theoretical implication that he was particularly in need of it.
"I'm real touched," he added, a faint curl to his mouth.
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