[ He stops. She stops. His eyes widen. She draws back, just to be safe. A moment passes with her eyes narrowed, considering. She wonders if maybe she misunderstood. But...what is there to misunderstand? If he understands, but he might still want something, what else...?
His hand is still firmly settled at her waist, and she thinks of how difficult it is with Masamune sometimes, him saying left and she saying right and both thinking they're saying the same--so she may as well say it. Plainly as she can manage: ]
I want you for my lover, tonight. [ She comes closer again, in increments. ] If that is also what you want.
[ She emphasizes the if and the you because she's afraid that maybe she read wrong, maybe she's mistaken. But that's all she can offer him; she can't take a suitor here, now--she has greater things to worry on than lineage and marriage contracts and courtship--but even if she can't have that she can have this. Just this, right now. ]
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His hand is still firmly settled at her waist, and she thinks of how difficult it is with Masamune sometimes, him saying left and she saying right and both thinking they're saying the same--so she may as well say it. Plainly as she can manage: ]
I want you for my lover, tonight. [ She comes closer again, in increments. ] If that is also what you want.
[ She emphasizes the if and the you because she's afraid that maybe she read wrong, maybe she's mistaken. But that's all she can offer him; she can't take a suitor here, now--she has greater things to worry on than lineage and marriage contracts and courtship--but even if she can't have that she can have this. Just this, right now. ]