[Now seemed like as good a time as any to breach the olive branch. Chilton shuddered, his wound aching with the sharpness of separated skin; whimpers escaped he lips as he tried to speak again. He couldn't blame her for the violence, Chilton maintained a history book of it and had long ago adapted to the repression of blame. For the most part. Egotistical as he was, he feared the loss of certain friendly privileges more than a little slapping to his own self-satisfaction.
He wouldn't hold this against her. He couldn't.
But that didn't mean it hadn't agonized him, that it wasn't currently aching and searing.]
I have something for you.
[He spoke with a greater urgency, his sight absorbing her every nuanced facial twitch. Every slight expression, every natural movement.]
no subject
[Now seemed like as good a time as any to breach the olive branch. Chilton shuddered, his wound aching with the sharpness of separated skin; whimpers escaped he lips as he tried to speak again. He couldn't blame her for the violence, Chilton maintained a history book of it and had long ago adapted to the repression of blame. For the most part. Egotistical as he was, he feared the loss of certain friendly privileges more than a little slapping to his own self-satisfaction.
He wouldn't hold this against her. He couldn't.
But that didn't mean it hadn't agonized him, that it wasn't currently aching and searing.]
I have something for you.
[He spoke with a greater urgency, his sight absorbing her every nuanced facial twitch. Every slight expression, every natural movement.]
Will you let me show you?