You're interested? [Any attempt from keeping himself sounding too excited about it fail in part with how his voice cracks as he mirrors the words back. He almost immediately clears his throat after and there's the soft sound of fabric shifting like he's smoothing out his clothes to recompose himself.]
I should be straightforward with you - my, um, specialty with the subject is not traditional training.
We can do more traditional training if you prefer though. I could stand to be better at taking hits in a fight myself. [So many unsaid implications.]
[Bene starts to say something, then stops himself. He has a brain, when he remembers to use it. And this seems like an opportunity that they could both enjoy.]
You'll have to get it out of me, [he decides. That is, after all, the theme of this whole endeavor.]
What a treat! I have plenty of ways of making you talk...
I hope you don't have any other plans for the evening. Or night. Or possibly tomorrow morning.
Depends on how long you last. [Is there a bit of menace peppered into that last sentence? Maybe. Testing the waters after how things started last time.]
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Then,]
Well.
I'm interested.
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I should be straightforward with you - my, um, specialty with the subject is not traditional training.
We can do more traditional training if you prefer though. I could stand to be better at taking hits in a fight myself. [So many unsaid implications.]
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that's all right. [Can Allumin hear his heart thundering over the crystal? Why is it being so loud, anyway?]
I'd-- we can-- try it this way first.
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[After the encounter they had, he writes off any hesitation as any lingering embarrassment from that whole ordeal and doesn't do much reading into it.
Laser-focused.]
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Your hands.
[Then, a bit more sheepishly,] I’m… well I’m sort of new to it all. As you know.
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[He sees a small avenue for teasing.]
Is it that, or have you been thinking about my hands within the idle gaps of other thoughts since our first meeting?
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[oh no]
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And have you been imagining anything in particular? Places you want them to touch again...?
Places you wish they touched but didn't?
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well perhaps I’d— well we didn’t have a lot of time, I suppose.
[He’s letting himself be led around by the nose, and oddly doesn’t hate it.]
…shall we meet later?
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Will you share one of these thoughts if we do? Or would you have me guess and touch you all over?
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You'll have to get it out of me, [he decides. That is, after all, the theme of this whole endeavor.]
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I hope you don't have any other plans for the evening. Or night. Or possibly tomorrow morning.
Depends on how long you last. [Is there a bit of menace peppered into that last sentence? Maybe. Testing the waters after how things started last time.]
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Well I'll still have to go to work, [he insists, the smile audible in his voice,] ...but you'll have me until then.