[ Astarion looks at him, watches, wanting to retreat into a corner like a cornered animal. It's uncomfortable, to have someone like Halsin focusing so intently on you, and the immediate reaction he has is to fight back and say something cruel and cutting. The truth is, of course, that it's difficult for him to dismiss how painfully earnest Halsin is, especially when he is so kind and handsome.
It's irritating.
Turning his gaze away, he frowns, trying to hide just how on edge he feels at something as simple as a kind word. After two hundred years without it... It is difficult to cope. ]
I am - yes, I am me. There's no denying that, I suppose, for whatever it's worth.
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It's irritating.
Turning his gaze away, he frowns, trying to hide just how on edge he feels at something as simple as a kind word. After two hundred years without it... It is difficult to cope. ]
I am - yes, I am me. There's no denying that, I suppose, for whatever it's worth.