[It's not that he suddenly feels as naked as he is once that hold slides free, it's—
Actually, he doesn't know. Hasn't got a clue, really, what it is in him that pulls him towards tractability (right down to the way upturned ears flick high towards each pull, or the slow stop-start hitching of his well-framed heart once that heavy palm sets in), in ways he's always bucked against on thoroughly compulsive instinct: angry to be told no, regardless of how nicely. Prone to shoving, scowling, scoffing— he's lost track of how many times he's made a game of sinking deeper into his own chair during grander speeches just because he knows it'll leave his own kin seeing red.
But not this.
Or—
Or if yes this, considering the oscillating flow of contrary momentum, it at least isn't rearing up right now.
Not so long as he can shift a little more forwards across that sprawled-out form. Not as long as he's tended to and seen, considering all the questions Fenris has ever posed are a damned sight more perceptive than what the average Patriar would expect of any bodyguard, let alone a former slave.
Come to think of it, they're more perceptive than the average Patriar, too.]
I don't value their opinion at all— even a blind, deaf, inbred Gur could—
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Actually, he doesn't know. Hasn't got a clue, really, what it is in him that pulls him towards tractability (right down to the way upturned ears flick high towards each pull, or the slow stop-start hitching of his well-framed heart once that heavy palm sets in), in ways he's always bucked against on thoroughly compulsive instinct: angry to be told no, regardless of how nicely. Prone to shoving, scowling, scoffing— he's lost track of how many times he's made a game of sinking deeper into his own chair during grander speeches just because he knows it'll leave his own kin seeing red.
But not this.
Or—
Or if yes this, considering the oscillating flow of contrary momentum, it at least isn't rearing up right now.
Not so long as he can shift a little more forwards across that sprawled-out form. Not as long as he's tended to and seen, considering all the questions Fenris has ever posed are a damned sight more perceptive than what the average Patriar would expect of any bodyguard, let alone a former slave.
Come to think of it, they're more perceptive than the average Patriar, too.]
I don't value their opinion at all— even a blind, deaf, inbred Gur could—