There's a spark in those crimson eyes, a sudden flicker of wicked enthusiasm: he’d been hunting for entertainment within sullen shadows, he hadn’t expected to actually find it.

"For starters? I hear I'm terribly clever. Utterly charming, and— ” his brows tangle slightly as they pinch, head tilting just so as he measures the substantial differences between them.

“Well, not as tall as you, but tall enough, I suppose.”