Louis lets them stay there, quiet. Daniel will wait for him. Louis knows that. Daniel will pry relentlessly after answers, yes, but he's given Louis room to breathe. Maybe led him, kited Louis towards answers Daniel sensed before Louis could parse them out.
The amusement goes. Turns pensive. Feels their breath, rising and falling in time.
"I didn't want them to see me," Louis says at last. Corrects himself: "I don't want them to see me."
A thing Louis hasn't looked directly at in twenty years, at least.
no subject
Nothing, right away.
Louis lets them stay there, quiet. Daniel will wait for him. Louis knows that. Daniel will pry relentlessly after answers, yes, but he's given Louis room to breathe. Maybe led him, kited Louis towards answers Daniel sensed before Louis could parse them out.
The amusement goes. Turns pensive. Feels their breath, rising and falling in time.
"I didn't want them to see me," Louis says at last. Corrects himself: "I don't want them to see me."
A thing Louis hasn't looked directly at in twenty years, at least.