[It tumbles out a tad more harsh than he means it, a lopsided grimace snagging the corner of his mouth. Javert wrestles with himself inwardly, and for once in his existence he contemplates the tact of what he is about to tell her.]
Thank carefully before you make that bargain, [he cautions.] People have it in their skulls that drinking blood simplifies the feast, that it is gentler. No, I do not think so. Once you have a smell and a taste for the stuff, it... [his grimace darkens, eyes glazing as his focus fixes on a point several feet past Peace's left ear] devours and consumes. It is all you will smell and listen for when you...
[He lapses into a tepid silence, a vivid portrait of heartbeats and coursing blood pulsing above the noise of their conversation.]
no subject
[It tumbles out a tad more harsh than he means it, a lopsided grimace snagging the corner of his mouth. Javert wrestles with himself inwardly, and for once in his existence he contemplates the tact of what he is about to tell her.]
Thank carefully before you make that bargain, [he cautions.] People have it in their skulls that drinking blood simplifies the feast, that it is gentler. No, I do not think so. Once you have a smell and a taste for the stuff, it... [his grimace darkens, eyes glazing as his focus fixes on a point several feet past Peace's left ear] devours and consumes. It is all you will smell and listen for when you...
[He lapses into a tepid silence, a vivid portrait of heartbeats and coursing blood pulsing above the noise of their conversation.]