[Mildly spoken in his airy tone, as if he knew how his voice sounded from the gleaming window of his ivory tower. The remark cut both ways; Chilton had Abel Gideon cut up that nurse, and Gideon had collected the debt to Chilton's own gut. It wasn't the sort of scar he would want to expose, not physically nor emotionally. The road they had taken that river-spawned off the highway now bled into a backwater street. The asphalt was bumpy, forgotten.
Chilton kept his smile tightly coiled.]
Unless, of course, you are offering? You know I need your consent.
[At that word, with that emphasis, he forced the car off the road, down the gentle grassy slope with the wheels drifting sideways -- psychically performed. Meanwhile his hand was outstretched, reaching for the man's face, glad for the exposure of the mouth thanks to that inviting tequila.
no subject
[Mildly spoken in his airy tone, as if he knew how his voice sounded from the gleaming window of his ivory tower. The remark cut both ways; Chilton had Abel Gideon cut up that nurse, and Gideon had collected the debt to Chilton's own gut. It wasn't the sort of scar he would want to expose, not physically nor emotionally. The road they had taken that river-spawned off the highway now bled into a backwater street. The asphalt was bumpy, forgotten.
Chilton kept his smile tightly coiled.]
Unless, of course, you are offering? You know I need your consent.
[At that word, with that emphasis, he forced the car off the road, down the gentle grassy slope with the wheels drifting sideways -- psychically performed. Meanwhile his hand was outstretched, reaching for the man's face, glad for the exposure of the mouth thanks to that inviting tequila.
Sedative was waiting in his fingertips.]