[Jade really is trying to distract him, isn't it? The way those fingers are creeping up his thigh..... For shame. They do more to make him shiver than his own fingers do, at any rate, more to make his impatience flare up than mere desire alone ever could.
After all, nature abhors a vacuum, doesn't it? In his youth and isolation, his blood had always seemed to run cold. The world had simply been the world, then--vast, strange, daunting, incomprehensible, monolithic. Something to be watched at arm's length, through a pane of glass, like studying a textbook. Nothing really held any inherent meaning in and of itself, save in context, in connection. Once those connections were made manifest, though--once that pane of glass had shattered, and the world was free to reach through and seize him by the throat--
Suddenly, it was abundantly obvious how everything was connected. Suddenly, there was nothing but those bonds, nothing but that meaning that flowed through them, nothing but the beauty that seemed to hold the world together--and to hold him fast to the world, an integral part of it at last, just as it did for everything else.
Rook grins, free hand spreading in an expansive shrug. Does Jade really want to fumble through trying it himself just from watching someone else, when he could have them demonstrate on him instead?]
You could be alone enough. But wouldn't you rather have company? A helping hand to show you how, perhaps?
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[Jade really is trying to distract him, isn't it? The way those fingers are creeping up his thigh..... For shame. They do more to make him shiver than his own fingers do, at any rate, more to make his impatience flare up than mere desire alone ever could.
After all, nature abhors a vacuum, doesn't it? In his youth and isolation, his blood had always seemed to run cold. The world had simply been the world, then--vast, strange, daunting, incomprehensible, monolithic. Something to be watched at arm's length, through a pane of glass, like studying a textbook. Nothing really held any inherent meaning in and of itself, save in context, in connection. Once those connections were made manifest, though--once that pane of glass had shattered, and the world was free to reach through and seize him by the throat--
Suddenly, it was abundantly obvious how everything was connected. Suddenly, there was nothing but those bonds, nothing but that meaning that flowed through them, nothing but the beauty that seemed to hold the world together--and to hold him fast to the world, an integral part of it at last, just as it did for everything else.
Rook grins, free hand spreading in an expansive shrug. Does Jade really want to fumble through trying it himself just from watching someone else, when he could have them demonstrate on him instead?]
You could be alone enough. But wouldn't you rather have company? A helping hand to show you how, perhaps?