He looked over to a pair of people watching from across the corridor, and he leaned his head down and whispered close into Reinette's ear, "Oh you really are a clever woman, aren't you?"
Tricks of the trade, she had. A few of his own tricks there. Enigmatic in all the right ways. Knowing the ways just to get people interested enough but to only tease, to leave people wanting. It could be a delicate art form that few were masters of. He was, he knew that. It seemed maybe he'd met another.
"Then maybe," he said, still in a whisper, "I'll have to see if I can't coax a few out of you."
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Date: 2009-12-02 04:57 am (UTC)He looked over to a pair of people watching from across the corridor, and he leaned his head down and whispered close into Reinette's ear, "Oh you really are a clever woman, aren't you?"
Tricks of the trade, she had. A few of his own tricks there. Enigmatic in all the right ways. Knowing the ways just to get people interested enough but to only tease, to leave people wanting. It could be a delicate art form that few were masters of. He was, he knew that. It seemed maybe he'd met another.
"Then maybe," he said, still in a whisper, "I'll have to see if I can't coax a few out of you."