Assurance against the possibility of pleading eyes and whimsy. Lestat is pretty sure he could coax Louis into ice skating, but perhaps it would be a waste of the time they could spend doing just this.
A pause, a debate about whether he should say the thing that comes to him next, or press it back down amongst the other little instincts and urges that have gone unexpressed. He doesn't want to be maudlin. Not when Louis is prone to pensiveness. But, oh well,
"Promise me," he says, and here, a nudge of his weight shoulder to shoulder, he's not being so serious as all this, "we'll find time to walk together often."
Often can mean anything, so long as it means again and again.
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"Walking with you is my preference."
Assurance against the possibility of pleading eyes and whimsy. Lestat is pretty sure he could coax Louis into ice skating, but perhaps it would be a waste of the time they could spend doing just this.
A pause, a debate about whether he should say the thing that comes to him next, or press it back down amongst the other little instincts and urges that have gone unexpressed. He doesn't want to be maudlin. Not when Louis is prone to pensiveness. But, oh well,
"Promise me," he says, and here, a nudge of his weight shoulder to shoulder, he's not being so serious as all this, "we'll find time to walk together often."
Often can mean anything, so long as it means again and again.