Goodness. He'd triggered something. But who'd put it there in the first place, whatever it was she recalled so vividly and with such a particular flood of feeling?
It couldn't possibly have been him. She called him by his old name, but that… she was too young to have known him then, when he'd had no need of a cane or so many stacks of paper. He was absolutely certain. That certainty only confused the matter further.
His eyes were sapphire again.
She was lying outright.
"I think you have me confused with someone else, mademoiselle," he said, slow and careful, still unmoving. From further away, the shadows between the shelves looked darker on his face, exaggerated the sharpness of his cheekbones and the aquiline crook of his nose. "I am not this man of whom you speak." He cocked his head a little. "I wonder who it was that could have told you such a thing?"
And what had they told her, to terrify her so. If he concentrated, if he focused, if he ignored all the other tastes of her which had so distracted him – underneath that hint of white pepper that suggested what hid beneath her hat–
Snakeskin. Just a little. The faintest possible whiff of witchcraft on her.
Hm.
It couldn't possibly have been him. She called him by his old name, but that… she was too young to have known him then, when he'd had no need of a cane or so many stacks of paper. He was absolutely certain. That certainty only confused the matter further.
His eyes were sapphire again.
She was lying outright.
"I think you have me confused with someone else, mademoiselle," he said, slow and careful, still unmoving. From further away, the shadows between the shelves looked darker on his face, exaggerated the sharpness of his cheekbones and the aquiline crook of his nose. "I am not this man of whom you speak." He cocked his head a little. "I wonder who it was that could have told you such a thing?"
And what had they told her, to terrify her so. If he concentrated, if he focused, if he ignored all the other tastes of her which had so distracted him – underneath that hint of white pepper that suggested what hid beneath her hat–
Snakeskin. Just a little. The faintest possible whiff of witchcraft on her.
Hm.
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