glandival: (#9812319)
sᴀʙɪɴᴇ. ([personal profile] glandival) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2016-05-30 10:24 am (UTC)

[ Follow-up sideways smirk is met with pertly arched eyebrow and a rolling look up and down before keeping assessment to herself, deliberately. She gathers chopped vegetables into cupped hands, throws them into the pot. The steam issuing from it sticks fine curls of red to her cheeks.

Which are pink, by virtue of the kitchen warmth, and not the question. It sounds like an attempt to nudge the conversation away from the awkwardness that Michel de Chevin's presence creates, and yet, here we are again.

Oh well! ]


I am from Halamshiral, [ she says, with a thin, anaemic smile as she closes the pot, and lifts it to place over fire. In several hours, its contents will become food. She wipes her hands on her apron, lifts her eyebrows. A jab; ] We must all sound the same to you.

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