08-20-2018, 12:44 PM
He changed. She hadn't noticed it before, that faint layer of falseness, multi-folded like an accordion. Complicated layers like that were always hardest to interpret. Asha couldn't parse lies from truth, but she could tell when someone was being earnest.
She laughed as he assessed their surroundings, and turned to mock whisper behind her hand. "There are more than a few weird people here. You didn't notice?" Honestly, it wouldn't have been her choice of location, but that owed more to its popularity and thus business than anything else. As far as unusual individuals were concerned, little phased her. She was used to being the strange one, at least until she'd arrived in Moscow.
Her eyes drew wide as saucers as he continued though; she leaned in, fascinated at what he described. And by her rapt expression utterly believing every word. Auras? There was nothing about that in Aria's monster manual, though it tended to focus on less human creatures. And ways to kill them that made her squeamish.
He made to move and she stood abruptly, banging her knee and upsetting her coffee over the lip of the mug. She cursed in Hindi as she tried to manoeuvre out. "Wait! Wait, you can't say that and leave!" They weren't the same, she was fairly sure. Asha didn't see anything when she looked at others, certainly not colours. But he'd read the passing flicker of her emotion. "Please?"
She laughed as he assessed their surroundings, and turned to mock whisper behind her hand. "There are more than a few weird people here. You didn't notice?" Honestly, it wouldn't have been her choice of location, but that owed more to its popularity and thus business than anything else. As far as unusual individuals were concerned, little phased her. She was used to being the strange one, at least until she'd arrived in Moscow.
Her eyes drew wide as saucers as he continued though; she leaned in, fascinated at what he described. And by her rapt expression utterly believing every word. Auras? There was nothing about that in Aria's monster manual, though it tended to focus on less human creatures. And ways to kill them that made her squeamish.
He made to move and she stood abruptly, banging her knee and upsetting her coffee over the lip of the mug. She cursed in Hindi as she tried to manoeuvre out. "Wait! Wait, you can't say that and leave!" They weren't the same, she was fairly sure. Asha didn't see anything when she looked at others, certainly not colours. But he'd read the passing flicker of her emotion. "Please?"