[CLOSED] I lie so you won't have to

[illithidnapped]

WHO: Astarion and Loki
WHAT: Wycome? more like Wygo amirite? Anyway they're looking for a foothold with the Duke, and sniffing out any potential Tevinter agents/connections that might be hovering around within the upper echelons of society
WHEN: literally now
WHERE: Wycome
NOTES: mission info | warnings will follow if applicable

Comments

[icasm]

Loki's attention is wholly on Astarion's hair, now, working small sections of curls in between layers of soapy cloth in order to get the wine out. He's aware of the mirror, much like he'd been aware of Astarion holding his breath for a moment there, but neither are as important as what he's doing.

"There was a moment when some of the servants seemed very interested in being elsewhere while I waited." He wonders if that's when the woman took her agitation out of Astarion of if something else was afoot. Difficult to tell; he'd pretended he didn't notice the comings and goings of the help, as was befitting his cover.

"I lost a little more, but still came out well overall. Maris and I had a conversation about keeping lovers pleased; the poor boy is very in over his head." Loki huffs out a laugh and shakes his head.

Once Astarion's hair is clean, he takes the comb and runs it through a few times. "There. Good as new, hm?"

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“My my. Know a thing or two about that, do you? I’m surprised.”

Offhanded. Middlingly teasing.

Damp as they are now, the normally high set of his hair has gone limp— his curls wound tighter save for the edges nearer to his scalp. He eyes himself for a beat in the mirror once finished, looking past the smudged finish of his own makeup, seemingly pacified.

Given all his usual expressiveness, it’s somewhat obvious when he’s not simmering in brooding contention.

He reaches high, snaring Loki’s fingers before he has an opportunity to pull away entirely, fingertip tracing the edge of that thumb he’d bitten earlier. Subtle.

“Not bad.”

Which is, of course, a stand in for thank you— or something like it.

“Though I’d like to point out this is the second time you’ve doused me on this trip so far.”