It's vanity if you preen and twirl each time you bring home new stockings. I am not teasing your attractiveness, but your own awareness of it.
[His utterly inane point made, he considers that answer. It is a good one, even if some part of him recoils to think of Astarion possessed, hypothetical or not. But hmm . . . if this is to be a game, let it be a game, and Astarion's answer is far too easily given to let it linger.
And gods, he wouldn't play this game with anyone else— but then again, when has Astarion ever been anything save exception to all the rules?]
You may choose your vampiric master, but he— or she— cannot be wholly pleasant. How hellish a master are you willing to tolerate?
[Time to play every slave's favorite game: just how much could you take?]
no subject
[His utterly inane point made, he considers that answer. It is a good one, even if some part of him recoils to think of Astarion possessed, hypothetical or not. But hmm . . . if this is to be a game, let it be a game, and Astarion's answer is far too easily given to let it linger.
And gods, he wouldn't play this game with anyone else— but then again, when has Astarion ever been anything save exception to all the rules?]
You may choose your vampiric master, but he— or she— cannot be wholly pleasant. How hellish a master are you willing to tolerate?
[Time to play every slave's favorite game: just how much could you take?]