At the moment Hal might actually have been the least trystable person on the entire Cape, although he would have been pleased to hear a person at least use the word. So much more elegant than many of the other terms available.
He looked with great concentration away from her blush. His instincts understood that her blood would kill him the same way certain other predators knew to stay away from poisonous butterflies, but blood was blood. It threw him off at the best of times, and tonight was not ...the best of times. Frankly speaking.
The laugh he jittered back was brittle at the edges. "I don't," he began, somewhere between incredulous and lame, "burst into flame, no." After a pause. "Or rip off heads as a general rule."
....There had been exceptions. "If we're exchanging impossibilities now, you don't seem like--" he waved, vague, "any of your sort that I've ever met. Although it does explain why you didn't declare us mortal enemies at first glance."
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He looked with great concentration away from her blush. His instincts understood that her blood would kill him the same way certain other predators knew to stay away from poisonous butterflies, but blood was blood. It threw him off at the best of times, and tonight was not ...the best of times. Frankly speaking.
The laugh he jittered back was brittle at the edges. "I don't," he began, somewhere between incredulous and lame, "burst into flame, no." After a pause. "Or rip off heads as a general rule."
....There had been exceptions. "If we're exchanging impossibilities now, you don't seem like--" he waved, vague, "any of your sort that I've ever met. Although it does explain why you didn't declare us mortal enemies at first glance."