He could feel her look, still disapproving, and read it well enough not to need the telling-off that came next. He bore it with only minor bristling, at any rate, but only because it was from Eavan and only because she must be mildly delirious from either the pain or the medication. She must be delirious, for any of what she was saying to make sense to her. Surely she wasn't friendly with that stuck-up popinjay? He hadn't been visiting her especially -
No, Eavan would do better than that in a friend or a young man. Definitely delirious. So Conall swallowed his protests and contented himself with raising a disbelieving eyebrow, muttering an: "I hear you." At that point, she stopped chiding and started fussing - which was not, as it happened, an altogether different tone.
"I'll go as soon as you're asleep," Conall told her, matter-of-fact, even if it was an utter lie. He mustered a half-grin at her last remark. "Can't blame me for being worried then, can you?" he said pointedly. Adventuring was in their blood; if he was off getting into trouble, heavens knew Eva was. "You got sent back to the zoo?" He said, still more softly. "I heard -" he didn't want to sound too keen about this, Merlin, she was bedridden from it, but - "something about you fighting off a croc?" (If that was true, all he had to say was: attagirl.)
No, Eavan would do better than that in a friend or a young man. Definitely delirious. So Conall swallowed his protests and contented himself with raising a disbelieving eyebrow, muttering an: "I hear you." At that point, she stopped chiding and started fussing - which was not, as it happened, an altogether different tone.
"I'll go as soon as you're asleep," Conall told her, matter-of-fact, even if it was an utter lie. He mustered a half-grin at her last remark. "Can't blame me for being worried then, can you?" he said pointedly. Adventuring was in their blood; if he was off getting into trouble, heavens knew Eva was. "You got sent back to the zoo?" He said, still more softly. "I heard -" he didn't want to sound too keen about this, Merlin, she was bedridden from it, but - "something about you fighting off a croc?" (If that was true, all he had to say was: attagirl.)
