Lif doesn't have any blood left to run cold at a statement like that, but Hubert will almost certainly be able to see the way Lif tenses at that statement. He didn't want to believe that there was a chance that he'd see this man again, much less one who could've possibly been one of his most stalwart allies. His friends.
Lif's gaze hardens at that, though. He forces it to. Even if he is the man he once knew, the boy Hubert knew in kind is--]
...It would seem your gut feeling led you in the right direction. I am...not one for reading, but I do prefer these.
[It's guarded. It's so, so incredibly guarded.]
...You've been bothering me quite a bit as of late, when you do not even have to. And now you're going out of your way to bring me entertainment, as if you're looking for an excuse to spend time with me.
[Lif's gaze trains itself on Hubert; accusatory, intentionally so.]
I want to know why, Vestra. Why do you persist? What do you stand to gain from this?
[Is it a heavy level of deflection away from the fact that he too has been going out of his way? Yes, absolutely. Does Lif care?? Of course not.
The dead don't have feelings, after all, despite all evidence to the contrary.]
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Lif doesn't have any blood left to run cold at a statement like that, but Hubert will almost certainly be able to see the way Lif tenses at that statement. He didn't want to believe that there was a chance that he'd see this man again, much less one who could've possibly been one of his most stalwart allies. His friends.
Lif's gaze hardens at that, though. He forces it to. Even if he is the man he once knew, the boy Hubert knew in kind is--]
...It would seem your gut feeling led you in the right direction. I am...not one for reading, but I do prefer these.
[It's guarded. It's so, so incredibly guarded.]
...You've been bothering me quite a bit as of late, when you do not even have to. And now you're going out of your way to bring me entertainment, as if you're looking for an excuse to spend time with me.
[Lif's gaze trains itself on Hubert; accusatory, intentionally so.]
I want to know why, Vestra. Why do you persist? What do you stand to gain from this?
[Is it a heavy level of deflection away from the fact that he too has been going out of his way? Yes, absolutely. Does Lif care?? Of course not.
The dead don't have feelings, after all, despite all evidence to the contrary.]