Trystan laughed lightly at that. “I’m certain they will. All the same, I can give you a lift wherever you’re headed, if you like.” Moreso, the cab waiting up there for him could do – it was very much the least they could do.
Mercifully, she didn’t sound too aggrieved by that detail – but then, she also looked near freezing to death, so perhaps her annoyance would renew when she regained her body warmth. Best she got warm, and soon. “You know, I do,” Trystan returned conversationally, passing his wand over her, slowly, from head to toe. “Do you know you’ve gone all silver and blue?”
Even down to her eyes, which had turned an unearthly white. That simply couldn’t be from the cold water; she’d have frozen to death before looking like this, like an ice sculpture come to life.
Mercifully, she didn’t sound too aggrieved by that detail – but then, she also looked near freezing to death, so perhaps her annoyance would renew when she regained her body warmth. Best she got warm, and soon. “You know, I do,” Trystan returned conversationally, passing his wand over her, slowly, from head to toe. “Do you know you’ve gone all silver and blue?”
Even down to her eyes, which had turned an unearthly white. That simply couldn’t be from the cold water; she’d have frozen to death before looking like this, like an ice sculpture come to life.
