As she looked at herself in the mirror, he moved behind her in as nonthreatening a way as he could manage. It was still a little threatening. It was a natural consequence of his size that he loomed. Standing behind her made her look smaller, and made him look larger, and he very much liked the effect. Her little touches of red matched his gloves and his waistcoat.
He leaned down closer. "I am not oblivious to the impracticality of this outfit for your lifestyle," he said. "I assume you will be changing after you have left – what you do with them after that is none of my concern. Pawn them, if you like, though I think it would be a waste of shoes that look as good on you as these do."
Would such an outfit cause her problems? She did not, in his estimation, look like any kind of street walker. A certain appearance of class could be protective, leading to assumptions that she had resources and that there would be consequences for hurting her.
But it had been a very long time, indeed, since he had been anything but large and powerful. He could only vaguely recall the streets as they had been, or even the streets when he had sometimes stalked them more recently. He knew nothing about what wandered through the further sprawl of the city, because he did not care to learn. He was quite content where he was.
"You will find that you are safer nearer to my house, souris," he informed her delicately. "If you will be staying in Valesport, it is something to keep in mind."
He straightened, and stepped away from her. "How generous you are," he said, but that was always true of those with the least to give. "That will be no problem at all."
He re-entered the kitchen, put the ice cream back in the freezer in the process of finding a box. He did not have many plastic or glass storage containers, instead had baskets and bowls and cheesecloth and folding boxes of printed cardstock. He found one with a little polka-dot print that seemed the right size, and cut a generous slice to place inside it on waxed paper. Then he folded the lid, and hunted for his kitchen ribbon.
He had a great deal of ribbon, for a great many occasions.
Tying a little bow around the box, he checked that he was satisfied with his work before presenting it to her like a gift.
He leaned down closer. "I am not oblivious to the impracticality of this outfit for your lifestyle," he said. "I assume you will be changing after you have left – what you do with them after that is none of my concern. Pawn them, if you like, though I think it would be a waste of shoes that look as good on you as these do."
Would such an outfit cause her problems? She did not, in his estimation, look like any kind of street walker. A certain appearance of class could be protective, leading to assumptions that she had resources and that there would be consequences for hurting her.
But it had been a very long time, indeed, since he had been anything but large and powerful. He could only vaguely recall the streets as they had been, or even the streets when he had sometimes stalked them more recently. He knew nothing about what wandered through the further sprawl of the city, because he did not care to learn. He was quite content where he was.
"You will find that you are safer nearer to my house, souris," he informed her delicately. "If you will be staying in Valesport, it is something to keep in mind."
He straightened, and stepped away from her. "How generous you are," he said, but that was always true of those with the least to give. "That will be no problem at all."
He re-entered the kitchen, put the ice cream back in the freezer in the process of finding a box. He did not have many plastic or glass storage containers, instead had baskets and bowls and cheesecloth and folding boxes of printed cardstock. He found one with a little polka-dot print that seemed the right size, and cut a generous slice to place inside it on waxed paper. Then he folded the lid, and hunted for his kitchen ribbon.
He had a great deal of ribbon, for a great many occasions.
Tying a little bow around the box, he checked that he was satisfied with his work before presenting it to her like a gift.
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