A simple answer, absent of deeper and greater meaning.
Lestat had already fixed an expectant look on him, an expensive set of headphones held between his claws, but the change is subtle. His glasses have been pocketed to get out of the way, so the too-blue quality of his eyes are unmediated, like the way you'd describe glass in an aquarium. Glass in an aquarium isn't prone to breaking, however, and his regard of Daniel is, for a second, fragile. Fragile in the way you hope the concrete casing of a nuclear reactor would not be.
He was kind so Daniel is kind. Okay.
The very articulate look up and down is a little more performative, prissy, and Lestat pivots back to the wall of headphones, putting his current acquisition on. Playing with the panel that allows music to flow through. This takes more time than a trusting selection of a rectangle or the obnoxious-on-purpose choosing of glitter aesthetics, letting himself space out and listen to the barely meaningful differences between the quality of products, but he never has to go back and listen twice.
He selects not the most expensive one, but it's up there. At the counter, he tells the rep, "This one is the better one of all of those," with a certain amount of expectation that this is actionable advice.
no subject
Lestat had already fixed an expectant look on him, an expensive set of headphones held between his claws, but the change is subtle. His glasses have been pocketed to get out of the way, so the too-blue quality of his eyes are unmediated, like the way you'd describe glass in an aquarium. Glass in an aquarium isn't prone to breaking, however, and his regard of Daniel is, for a second, fragile. Fragile in the way you hope the concrete casing of a nuclear reactor would not be.
He was kind so Daniel is kind. Okay.
The very articulate look up and down is a little more performative, prissy, and Lestat pivots back to the wall of headphones, putting his current acquisition on. Playing with the panel that allows music to flow through. This takes more time than a trusting selection of a rectangle or the obnoxious-on-purpose choosing of glitter aesthetics, letting himself space out and listen to the barely meaningful differences between the quality of products, but he never has to go back and listen twice.
He selects not the most expensive one, but it's up there. At the counter, he tells the rep, "This one is the better one of all of those," with a certain amount of expectation that this is actionable advice.