"When I think it will make you laugh," he answered honestly, "or if I think it would arouse you." Jean did, after all, think of himself as being hilarious. Even if most of his 'jokes' were things only he could ever possibly understand. The corner of his mouth tipped ever so slightly upward, and as her fingertips continued their marvelous ministrations, he rolled his tongue into something resembling a purring sound. Then he grinned wide for only the briefest of moments, before letting his face return to the more dignified expression that was his usual. "And I am certainly not above whispering vulgarities into delicate ears. That is where they tend to have the most effect, after all."
"Ah, but I never underestimate myself. And I do not think it possible to overestimate you, valet de coeurs." He wrapped a hand around one of her wrists to take her hand from his hair. He kissed the delicate veins along her wrist, down the softer half of her forearm until he could kiss the inside of her elbow. "I admit to thinking I play better than I sing, he said, though his voice was an instrument finely tuned, "but I am capable of either, when circumstances warrant. It is less a matter of skill, I should think, than of preference."
He took her hand in his so that he could run his thumb over the lines of her palm, run his fingers along hers before kissing each of her fingertips in turn. Not that he was not listening to her story – heavens forfend. But it seemed only fair that he should touch while she spoke, and vice versa. He did so like to be fair, when it suited him.
"Love is a word for many things," he murmured. "It is fleeting and fickle, loyal and unyielding, involuntary and calculating and passionate and sweet. There really ought to be more words for it… but I suppose I have a unique perspective, at that. I know only that, of all the many things which I have known to be called love, none of them have ever been enough on their own. Enough to live on, enough to fight for; it is not even self-sustaining, not really."
"There is neither shame nor duplicity in proclaiming your love for a thing while knowing that it could not keep you, that you would not be kept."
"Ah, but I never underestimate myself. And I do not think it possible to overestimate you, valet de coeurs." He wrapped a hand around one of her wrists to take her hand from his hair. He kissed the delicate veins along her wrist, down the softer half of her forearm until he could kiss the inside of her elbow. "I admit to thinking I play better than I sing, he said, though his voice was an instrument finely tuned, "but I am capable of either, when circumstances warrant. It is less a matter of skill, I should think, than of preference."
He took her hand in his so that he could run his thumb over the lines of her palm, run his fingers along hers before kissing each of her fingertips in turn. Not that he was not listening to her story – heavens forfend. But it seemed only fair that he should touch while she spoke, and vice versa. He did so like to be fair, when it suited him.
"Love is a word for many things," he murmured. "It is fleeting and fickle, loyal and unyielding, involuntary and calculating and passionate and sweet. There really ought to be more words for it… but I suppose I have a unique perspective, at that. I know only that, of all the many things which I have known to be called love, none of them have ever been enough on their own. Enough to live on, enough to fight for; it is not even self-sustaining, not really."
"There is neither shame nor duplicity in proclaiming your love for a thing while knowing that it could not keep you, that you would not be kept."
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