Abby is less smooth and even more unsuspecting; when he shifts her weight to take it off her feet and lower her, she jolts, grips him more tightly than is strictly necessary. The breath rushes out of her when Astarion bares his teeth.
For a wild moment she thinks he's going to attack her in the middle of the goddamn hall (or at the very least drop her on her ass just to make her look like a complete idiot), and then she realises that people are watching them, and she stiffens, embarrassed, bewildered.
"... Right," is all she can think to say. Her feet feel twisted up underneath of herself: the opposite, of elegant. "Very funny."
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For a wild moment she thinks he's going to attack her in the middle of the goddamn hall (or at the very least drop her on her ass just to make her look like a complete idiot), and then she realises that people are watching them, and she stiffens, embarrassed, bewildered.
"... Right," is all she can think to say. Her feet feel twisted up underneath of herself: the opposite, of elegant. "Very funny."
Let her up! Now!