He's still impeccably dressed and coiffed, still possessed of Faerie beauty, but more pale, more gaunt, sharper and more inhuman in all of his angles. There's a manic sort of energy burning in his eyes.
Still, his behaviour betrays little of the urgency or the brusqueness apparent in his texts. He sweeps into Nikolai's house with a dandy's lazy grace, handing him a jar of fragrant hibiscus tea -- he would never arrive empty-handed -- and waving away his pleasantries with a lazy smile. ]
It is me who has tricked you into the vagaries of my company, and I fear you shall yet come to regret it.
[ His tone suggests that it's a joke, though there is a tightness around his eyes that's just barely noticeable. He knows Nikolai well enough by now to have given up any hope of fooling him: Cardan has A Problem, a real one, and it extends, perhaps, beyond the tech issues he came here with. ]
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He's still impeccably dressed and coiffed, still possessed of Faerie beauty, but more pale, more gaunt, sharper and more inhuman in all of his angles. There's a manic sort of energy burning in his eyes.
Still, his behaviour betrays little of the urgency or the brusqueness apparent in his texts. He sweeps into Nikolai's house with a dandy's lazy grace, handing him a jar of fragrant hibiscus tea -- he would never arrive empty-handed -- and waving away his pleasantries with a lazy smile. ]
It is me who has tricked you into the vagaries of my company, and I fear you shall yet come to regret it.
[ His tone suggests that it's a joke, though there is a tightness around his eyes that's just barely noticeable. He knows Nikolai well enough by now to have given up any hope of fooling him: Cardan has A Problem, a real one, and it extends, perhaps, beyond the tech issues he came here with. ]