You really know how to make a girl feel special, don't you?
[Eye roll. But she just brushes it off, and decides to start. Opening up the book, she begins.]
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'"
[She reads with ease, her focus solely on the words before her. She's read it countless times before (first in school, then for pleasure after that), but reading it now to someone else is a different sort of experience. It makes her conscious of setting the tone, and the inflection in her voice when reciting dialogue.
All-in-all, there's a calmness in how she reads to him, a serenity in the undercurrent in how she paints the scene with her words.]
~*~*~*~*~*
[It's only when they're part way through the book when Elle lowers the novel to see if Corvus is still with her. She peers at him, half-expecting him to have fallen asleep maybe 3 chapters ago.]
no subject
[Eye roll. But she just brushes it off, and decides to start. Opening up the book, she begins.]
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'"
[She reads with ease, her focus solely on the words before her. She's read it countless times before (first in school, then for pleasure after that), but reading it now to someone else is a different sort of experience. It makes her conscious of setting the tone, and the inflection in her voice when reciting dialogue.
All-in-all, there's a calmness in how she reads to him, a serenity in the undercurrent in how she paints the scene with her words.]
[It's only when they're part way through the book when Elle lowers the novel to see if Corvus is still with her. She peers at him, half-expecting him to have fallen asleep maybe 3 chapters ago.]