maddeninghatter: (allow me to observe)
Xerxes Break ([personal profile] maddeninghatter) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs 2013-07-05 07:49 pm (UTC)

[ Tea preparation consists of putting the kettle on the stove; and as for cake (chocolate layer, with bananas, Gilbert has outdone himself), he cuts a reasonably-sized slice, and puts it on a plate and grabs a fork - and sets the plate aside, taking up the whole rest of the cake, balancing the cake platter on one finger as he leaps into the sofa beside Leo. He's half-sprawled across it and sitting too close. ]

Now, Leo. You wanted to tell me something about Jack. I confess I'm keen to know, for my own reasons. I won't feed you some meaningless platitude, like "you can trust me."

[ He forks up an enormous morsel of cake from the platter, and gestures with it. Despite his silly behavior, his voice is as smooth as chocolate cream frosting, and his gaze incisive, though sightless. ]

But if you help me, be assured that I will help you. And if "helping you" means - to you - looking after the interests of your precious friends, then I will do that as well.

[ He shoves the whole forkful in his mouth, and swallows it in a single gulp. ]

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