[ Catching the blush, he lifts an eyebrow, but otherwise doesn't comment. (It occurs to him, with a bleak factuality, that the longer she stays around him, the more likely it'll stave that innocence out of her bit by bit. By eighteen he'd been incapable of embarrassment or flushes. Not unless they were feigned. Not unless they had a purpose.) ]
I'll send some of the stew over later. [ Hei sounds pleasantly casual; not quite warm because such disconnected conversations are, understandably, not his cup of tea, but it's a close approximation. ] Or [ A smile in his eyes if not his face. Calculated, yet not. ] I could teach you sometime.
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I'll send some of the stew over later. [ Hei sounds pleasantly casual; not quite warm because such disconnected conversations are, understandably, not his cup of tea, but it's a close approximation. ] Or [ A smile in his eyes if not his face. Calculated, yet not. ] I could teach you sometime.