Of course the dogs listened to her. Morons.
And she was telling him off now, that much felt obvious from her hands-on-hips and her tone, and if this had been a few years ago, this moment of disapproving, uncharacteristic bossiness might have made him... well, feel something.
As it was, he didn’t like the question. (What else would he be doing here, in this place that felt almost more like his childhood home than his own family’s? Nothing, anymore. He didn’t have the right.) “Well I haven’t come to call,” Hadrian said, sardonically. Not on her, not on her parents... although it felt like he should have some excuse beyond the dogs. An excuse that wasn’t wanting to know how Delia was doing without him.
“But since you’re asking, I – think there are some of my old things in a chest of drawers in the house somewhere,” Hadrian said. He was making this up on the spot, but he fancied it was true. (They had never settled long in the country, themselves, so their possessions had been... somewhat haphazardly scattered between expeditions). He raised an eyebrow, in case she decided to refuse him entry. It was not attempted thievery if she invited him in, and they were his own things.
And she was telling him off now, that much felt obvious from her hands-on-hips and her tone, and if this had been a few years ago, this moment of disapproving, uncharacteristic bossiness might have made him... well, feel something.
As it was, he didn’t like the question. (What else would he be doing here, in this place that felt almost more like his childhood home than his own family’s? Nothing, anymore. He didn’t have the right.) “Well I haven’t come to call,” Hadrian said, sardonically. Not on her, not on her parents... although it felt like he should have some excuse beyond the dogs. An excuse that wasn’t wanting to know how Delia was doing without him.
“But since you’re asking, I – think there are some of my old things in a chest of drawers in the house somewhere,” Hadrian said. He was making this up on the spot, but he fancied it was true. (They had never settled long in the country, themselves, so their possessions had been... somewhat haphazardly scattered between expeditions). He raised an eyebrow, in case she decided to refuse him entry. It was not attempted thievery if she invited him in, and they were his own things.
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