[ all of alina's gathered confidence evaporates in the seconds it takes for the door to swing open on kovac's bleary-eyed face. whatever speech she had arranged on her way here, setting her mouth into a pinched scowl — it all falls away, once she realizes ...
this is far from the man she had been planning to assail and ambush with words alone. her surprise is doe-like, a creature that's traipsed out of the woods to find itself face to face with unexpected company, as she wordlessly blinks back at him — and then recovers quickly enough, as though she had never been caught in the act of storming over to the darkling's door to rain a downpour of choice words on him.
thankfully, kovac's nudity gives her the perfect excuse to play off her shock. to her credit, her eyes only briefly flicker over him in curiosity — like they're being pulled on a string against her will before she forces them back to his eyes. he's not the first naked body she's stumbled across, after all; modesty had never been among the first army's ranks. ]
Is this how you're greeting everyone who helped you? [ her eyebrows raise, faintly amused. she peeks around him and past the crack in the door, ensuring kirigan isn't fulfilling his usual duty of looming in dark corners. once satisfied, she swivels it back on him. ] I came to check on you.
[ not that she had fared much better, but — magic has healed most of the damage of her fractured arm, leaving behind only a field of berry-red bruises on her skin, slowly but surely fading as the hours tick by. ]
vi, slides in late to the party
this is far from the man she had been planning to assail and ambush with words alone. her surprise is doe-like, a creature that's traipsed out of the woods to find itself face to face with unexpected company, as she wordlessly blinks back at him — and then recovers quickly enough, as though she had never been caught in the act of storming over to the darkling's door to rain a downpour of choice words on him.
thankfully, kovac's nudity gives her the perfect excuse to play off her shock. to her credit, her eyes only briefly flicker over him in curiosity — like they're being pulled on a string against her will before she forces them back to his eyes. he's not the first naked body she's stumbled across, after all; modesty had never been among the first army's ranks. ]
Is this how you're greeting everyone who helped you? [ her eyebrows raise, faintly amused. she peeks around him and past the crack in the door, ensuring kirigan isn't fulfilling his usual duty of looming in dark corners. once satisfied, she swivels it back on him. ] I came to check on you.
[ not that she had fared much better, but — magic has healed most of the damage of her fractured arm, leaving behind only a field of berry-red bruises on her skin, slowly but surely fading as the hours tick by. ]