Her burst of emotion gave him pause, though he couldn't pinpoint exactly why. A show of weakness, yes, but his instinct was to reassure her. For as much as he had been enjoying tormenting her, he had enjoyed it as a game, one that she was also playing. If she was a victim – that was something else entirely.
Torn between a desire to give no ground and no desire to make himself a monster in earnest, he chose his words carefully. "One generally does not allow harm to befall well-behaved pets," he observed.
The wolf. The wolf was the pet. Her pet. He assumed. Had deduced. He did not assume.
Presumably she got the gist regardless.
He was as surprised as she was when she walked into him, though his mask didn't show it. He almost reached out to steady her when she recoiled from him, a twitch of his shoulder. Then she moved around him, didn't touch him again. Light on her feet, light in general for having such sturdy–
Eyes.
"Goodnight, Fisel," he said. A final reminder that he had her name before he closed the door.
The lights activated a moment after the door latched; the door had disappeared into the wall, not even a knob from the inside, though from the hall it looked the same. Spheres of glowing crystal lit the room, resting on shelves and set into lamps. They'd dim and eventually darken at a touch. The bed was a modest little thing covered in cozy homespun blankets, and the attached water closet was… sparse.
It was less a dungeon cell, and more reminiscent of a very boring week spent in the guest room of a very old relative.
Whether Francesco, spoiled as he was, actually considered this room torturously uncomfortable was not clear.
Torn between a desire to give no ground and no desire to make himself a monster in earnest, he chose his words carefully. "One generally does not allow harm to befall well-behaved pets," he observed.
The wolf. The wolf was the pet. Her pet. He assumed. Had deduced. He did not assume.
Presumably she got the gist regardless.
He was as surprised as she was when she walked into him, though his mask didn't show it. He almost reached out to steady her when she recoiled from him, a twitch of his shoulder. Then she moved around him, didn't touch him again. Light on her feet, light in general for having such sturdy–
Eyes.
"Goodnight, Fisel," he said. A final reminder that he had her name before he closed the door.
The lights activated a moment after the door latched; the door had disappeared into the wall, not even a knob from the inside, though from the hall it looked the same. Spheres of glowing crystal lit the room, resting on shelves and set into lamps. They'd dim and eventually darken at a touch. The bed was a modest little thing covered in cozy homespun blankets, and the attached water closet was… sparse.
It was less a dungeon cell, and more reminiscent of a very boring week spent in the guest room of a very old relative.
Whether Francesco, spoiled as he was, actually considered this room torturously uncomfortable was not clear.
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