[ That cracks the facade. A slight crack, so thin and smooth it might even be intentional, but perhaps he's never been that talented of an actor. It depends who's asked. He doesn't miss a step, but his smile thins almost imperceptibly. ]
At the moment? Keeping you from freezing to a second, much less lovely death.
[ He sighs lavishly, eyelashes fluttering. ]
In a more expansive sense? I am...honouring our old acquaintance.
[ His eyes cut sideways, a flicker of something knotted and thorny behind them. ]
Do you really want to untangle a century of estrangement in the middle of wolf-haunted woods? Perhaps leaving you to the theatre was a mistake, too much a sense of staging - [ Lestat tips his free hand in the air, managing one of those tiny sympathetic winces of his that have no sympathy in them whatsoever ] - although you did always have a natural flair for the dramatic, didn't you?
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At the moment? Keeping you from freezing to a second, much less lovely death.
[ He sighs lavishly, eyelashes fluttering. ]
In a more expansive sense? I am...honouring our old acquaintance.
[ His eyes cut sideways, a flicker of something knotted and thorny behind them. ]
Do you really want to untangle a century of estrangement in the middle of wolf-haunted woods? Perhaps leaving you to the theatre was a mistake, too much a sense of staging - [ Lestat tips his free hand in the air, managing one of those tiny sympathetic winces of his that have no sympathy in them whatsoever ] - although you did always have a natural flair for the dramatic, didn't you?