[ predictably, she tucks the bottle away, using his pocket to store it aside for the moment, but all of his attention is on her, lips curving up with a bit of a devilish amusement when she teases him, hands rising to gently cup against either side of her neck, thumbs lazily stroking back and forth along her jaw. ]
Well, when you got a slabbed sleeve put away for too long, bringing it out just starts stirring up making excess hormones. Can't help it.
[ not that he's being too serious, even if that little fact is plenty true. but he'd been in the sleeve long enough by then for it to not actually be a factor, even if he can't say with a guarantee what it is that actually did draw him to clara. sometimes it could just be the sleeve, and sometimes — sometimes it's something deeper that's all his own.
and it's that feeling towards her that he has which has him make the choice in not brushing aside her question. he could just tell her yes, that it was just coping with the physical changes, but it wouldn't be the full truth.
he gives a quiet sigh, face relaxing to indicate his honesty. ]
When ... they woke up me up, I'd been down over two centuries. Woke up on a planet I'd never been on, years ahead from everything I knew. Wasn't my world. [ and it wasn't a world with quell in it. ] They'd offered me a deal in exchange for my freedom, but I'd ... already lost everything I cared about. Didn't seem worth sticking around. So I figured I'd just let myself have a night, let loose, and just ... go back into storage forever. Live in the dark rest of my life.
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Well, when you got a slabbed sleeve put away for too long, bringing it out just starts stirring up making excess hormones. Can't help it.
[ not that he's being too serious, even if that little fact is plenty true. but he'd been in the sleeve long enough by then for it to not actually be a factor, even if he can't say with a guarantee what it is that actually did draw him to clara. sometimes it could just be the sleeve, and sometimes — sometimes it's something deeper that's all his own.
and it's that feeling towards her that he has which has him make the choice in not brushing aside her question. he could just tell her yes, that it was just coping with the physical changes, but it wouldn't be the full truth.
he gives a quiet sigh, face relaxing to indicate his honesty. ]
When ... they woke up me up, I'd been down over two centuries. Woke up on a planet I'd never been on, years ahead from everything I knew. Wasn't my world. [ and it wasn't a world with quell in it. ] They'd offered me a deal in exchange for my freedom, but I'd ... already lost everything I cared about. Didn't seem worth sticking around. So I figured I'd just let myself have a night, let loose, and just ... go back into storage forever. Live in the dark rest of my life.