There is someone around to see it. Consider it perfect timing (or perfectly bad timing) when Ardyn catches the sight just as he’s wandering by at a distance, the lips of a stranger pressed against X’rhun. It’s difficult to know the circumstances leading up to such a sight, though Ardyn is a clever man — he supposes that it doesn't take much, what with the state of things being as they are now. Possession and minds not their own; or maybe it was simpler than that, a kiss simply because X’rhun could be kissed. Reasons didn’t always have to have strange motivations behind them.
(He shouldn’t care. He doesn’t, he tells himself. But something rakes against his core at the sight, something that feels like bitterness wrapped up in a terrible kind of amusement. Makes his words like glass, makes him want to break something—)
Ardyn only walks forward, strides long, until he’s in earshot. A lilt to his tone, a thread of something else beneath it, eyes sharp and smile sharper.]
My, someone’s friendly today, aren’t they?
[Who’s he talking about? The woman or X’rhun? Your guess.]
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There is someone around to see it. Consider it perfect timing (or perfectly bad timing) when Ardyn catches the sight just as he’s wandering by at a distance, the lips of a stranger pressed against X’rhun. It’s difficult to know the circumstances leading up to such a sight, though Ardyn is a clever man — he supposes that it doesn't take much, what with the state of things being as they are now. Possession and minds not their own; or maybe it was simpler than that, a kiss simply because X’rhun could be kissed. Reasons didn’t always have to have strange motivations behind them.
(He shouldn’t care. He doesn’t, he tells himself. But something rakes against his core at the sight, something that feels like bitterness wrapped up in a terrible kind of amusement. Makes his words like glass, makes him want to break something—)
Ardyn only walks forward, strides long, until he’s in earshot. A lilt to his tone, a thread of something else beneath it, eyes sharp and smile sharper.]
My, someone’s friendly today, aren’t they?
[Who’s he talking about? The woman or X’rhun? Your guess.]