[ the noise makes viktor chuckle under his breath, his lips quirking into a fond smile — it's not a laugh, no, but it's still very cute.
cute in a different way is how octavian looks at his family; by now, viktor feels is somewhat adept in reading his friend's moods, and the way he watches the arrangement of family in front of him is like he is painting the scene in his memory, a solemn kind of nostalgia, not unlike rio's presence with viktor.
and though with someone else — no, with most others, he has never had much success in lying to himself — he might agree instantly, take the chance to be elsewhere than where he obviously does not belong... but he shakes his head, just a little. ] No, I — [ he has to turn his head, then, cough into his fist as even in this dream his body seeks to betray him; it doesn't last long, luckily, and he tries again. ]
No, not yet. I would like to see it, you are correct... but tell me of them, first?
[ he wants to know, he realises then; he isn't saying it as a courtesy, as much as he's disinclined towards that in general, but rather because he looks at octavian's family and is confronted by his lack of knowledge about them, and he would like to know. ]
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cute in a different way is how octavian looks at his family; by now, viktor feels is somewhat adept in reading his friend's moods, and the way he watches the arrangement of family in front of him is like he is painting the scene in his memory, a solemn kind of nostalgia, not unlike rio's presence with viktor.
and though with someone else — no, with most others, he has never had much success in lying to himself — he might agree instantly, take the chance to be elsewhere than where he obviously does not belong... but he shakes his head, just a little. ] No, I — [ he has to turn his head, then, cough into his fist as even in this dream his body seeks to betray him; it doesn't last long, luckily, and he tries again. ]
No, not yet. I would like to see it, you are correct... but tell me of them, first?
[ he wants to know, he realises then; he isn't saying it as a courtesy, as much as he's disinclined towards that in general, but rather because he looks at octavian's family and is confronted by his lack of knowledge about them, and he would like to know. ]