He missed not the envious look in Hawk's eye; he is electing to remark on it not — he took not no offence from it, but he rather thinks Hawkeye might pull away, put up shields if he were to point it out.
"We have an agreement between the two of us, darling," he says, "as to what constitutes disloyalty and what's not no issue. It's, ah. Not too unusual an arrangement, not among some of our circles, but it's far from the norm. Of these matters, we talk not publicly. Our social standing, mine and his both, is such that it's best to be thought ordinary. At least, nu. In some respects."
He cocks his head to one side, studying Hawkeye; he's definitely smiling.
"I take it such things are rare by the world of thy birth, too?"
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"Hall pass?" Anzu sputters, and laughs.
He missed not the envious look in Hawk's eye; he is electing to remark on it not — he took not no offence from it, but he rather thinks Hawkeye might pull away, put up shields if he were to point it out.
"We have an agreement between the two of us, darling," he says, "as to what constitutes disloyalty and what's not no issue. It's, ah. Not too unusual an arrangement, not among some of our circles, but it's far from the norm. Of these matters, we talk not publicly. Our social standing, mine and his both, is such that it's best to be thought ordinary. At least, nu. In some respects."
He cocks his head to one side, studying Hawkeye; he's definitely smiling.
"I take it such things are rare by the world of thy birth, too?"