[ the fact that she chose a drink with tomato after spending time with the kresnik brothers doesn't escape his notice. rideaux was always partial to that drink as well -- it involved his favorite colors, for one, so it often coordinated perfectly with his clothes when he had one -- but as his relationship with julius had grown more and more strained and bitter over the years, he'd had a harder time enjoying it quite as much. which was stupid, and he knew it, but that didn't change anything.
(he had still enjoyed drinking them in front of bisley, though.) ]
It's just curiosity. Don't mistake it for something else.
[ he watches as she thinks it over, and chuckles softly at the response she comes up with. she tries too hard to sound tough, he thinks, but beyond that... even if what he knows of his future is extremely limited, he suspects that someone else ended up carrying out that very task. ]
no subject
(he had still enjoyed drinking them in front of bisley, though.) ]
It's just curiosity. Don't mistake it for something else.
[ he watches as she thinks it over, and chuckles softly at the response she comes up with. she tries too hard to sound tough, he thinks, but beyond that... even if what he knows of his future is extremely limited, he suspects that someone else ended up carrying out that very task. ]
I doubt you're the only one.