Hm.
It was… almost plausible.
"High schooler," he repeated, dubious. "A child, still in school?" He clicked his tongue. "What a peculiar thing that would be to do to a child, unprompted." He tapped his fingers on his cane. "I think that you are forgetting some very important things," he said, "as comfortable as my floors may seem to be for kneeling."
He started to say something else. He paused.
Scones.
His eyes widened. "Zut." He suddenly and without preamble abandoned his impromptu investigation to head back toward the kitchen, stumbling halfway and catching himself before doing anything too clumsy. His torn muscles of his thigh throbbed at him like the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards, so easy to ignore except when it wasn't. He muttered curses under his breath, threw open the hall door and didn't bother closing it.
He also didn't bother putting on an oven mitt when he pulled the pan out of the oven, though he did take the time to pull off the glove on his right hand and toss it aside with his cane.
It was nice leather. He wasn't about to go ruining a perfectly good pair of gloves.
The scones were slightly overdone, but not burnt, a fact for which he was immensely grateful. He regarded his blistering fingertips with some disdain. "Tch." They hurt, the way burns always hurt, the way injuries to fingertips were always the worst, all his nerve endings sizzling down to the bone as if it were anything other than the shallowest possible thing. It would heal quickly enough – faster than it would have taken to buy a new set of gloves. And the scones were saved.
It was… almost plausible.
"High schooler," he repeated, dubious. "A child, still in school?" He clicked his tongue. "What a peculiar thing that would be to do to a child, unprompted." He tapped his fingers on his cane. "I think that you are forgetting some very important things," he said, "as comfortable as my floors may seem to be for kneeling."
He started to say something else. He paused.
Scones.
His eyes widened. "Zut." He suddenly and without preamble abandoned his impromptu investigation to head back toward the kitchen, stumbling halfway and catching himself before doing anything too clumsy. His torn muscles of his thigh throbbed at him like the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards, so easy to ignore except when it wasn't. He muttered curses under his breath, threw open the hall door and didn't bother closing it.
He also didn't bother putting on an oven mitt when he pulled the pan out of the oven, though he did take the time to pull off the glove on his right hand and toss it aside with his cane.
It was nice leather. He wasn't about to go ruining a perfectly good pair of gloves.
The scones were slightly overdone, but not burnt, a fact for which he was immensely grateful. He regarded his blistering fingertips with some disdain. "Tch." They hurt, the way burns always hurt, the way injuries to fingertips were always the worst, all his nerve endings sizzling down to the bone as if it were anything other than the shallowest possible thing. It would heal quickly enough – faster than it would have taken to buy a new set of gloves. And the scones were saved.
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