[A twitch of a grin, faint and lost in the shadows that jitter in time with the campfire. He brings his attention back to his fingers and hair, the prospect of straightening it out completely looking more and more like a pipe dream.]
No one’s ever called me spoiled before.
[Fancy military bases, indeed.
Still, his instinct is to deny Luka’s offered help. He’s never had anyone do so much as touch his hair (except when he was a child, but it was shorter then, too), no one bold enough to really consider doing such a thing to a man made to seem perfectly untouchable. But those expectations, the ones that dictate his own actions more than he likes, are dampened here. Non-existent. He cannot use that as an excuse, blaming only his tendency to keep to his own personal space if he denies the other man.
But— well. With one more tug against his scalp, he thinks that maybe he can offer his traveling companion some leeway. He did see him akin to a drowned rat just a month ago, after all.]
Are you offering to braid all of this hair for me?
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[A twitch of a grin, faint and lost in the shadows that jitter in time with the campfire. He brings his attention back to his fingers and hair, the prospect of straightening it out completely looking more and more like a pipe dream.]
No one’s ever called me spoiled before.
[Fancy military bases, indeed.
Still, his instinct is to deny Luka’s offered help. He’s never had anyone do so much as touch his hair (except when he was a child, but it was shorter then, too), no one bold enough to really consider doing such a thing to a man made to seem perfectly untouchable. But those expectations, the ones that dictate his own actions more than he likes, are dampened here. Non-existent. He cannot use that as an excuse, blaming only his tendency to keep to his own personal space if he denies the other man.
But— well. With one more tug against his scalp, he thinks that maybe he can offer his traveling companion some leeway. He did see him akin to a drowned rat just a month ago, after all.]
Are you offering to braid all of this hair for me?