yudodis | (no subject)

That is a small comfort, but one I will hold dearly.

[ Face it is! He has one hand over his eye, but with the fingers barely parted. He's framed it so she can see his scrying orb over his shoulder, depicting Evie's own lovely face. It's quite a sizable globe, with three rings around it. One black, one gold, one silver. ]

As you can see, after seeing you, it's hard to turn my gaze to anything else.

And yet you hide from me? Cover your own handsome face with your hand? That hardly seems fair.

[She pouts, knowing he can still see her.]

Perhaps I should make myself a veil. Then we'll both be bereft.

I feared revealing it all at once. In case your heart could not handle it.

[ Which is why she gets a second- this time with his hand covering the other side of his face, the X on his eyepatch barely visible between his fingers but the sparkling blue of his eye now clear. ]

I think you just like being a tease. You really think my heart so weak?

[She is totally saving that pic to her phone right now, though.]

No...

[ The next one is a video. It starts with both hands over his face. Slowly they move away, but thick fog unfurls from his palms as he does, concealing his face in a swirl of white that matches his hair. A quick puff of air from his lips makes his smile appear, but nothing more as the video ends. ]

But I am very handsome.

I've never said you weren't. But this just proves my point. You're being a wicked tease.

Hmm. And is that wicked good, or bad?

[ Since she uses it to mean both. ]

Yes.

[If he's going to be cryptic, then so is she.]