cestrumnocturnum: (♦ privilege of gender confound soprano)
benji ryans. ([personal profile] cestrumnocturnum) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs 2012-05-05 12:26 pm (UTC)

"No--"

The English language and her tone both conspire to make that not a confirmation that she doesn't like it, but no, not necessarily. She is briefly hesitant, but distracted from worrying about being assumptive by looking towards the staircase and wondering how much higher one can climb out here without touching on world records. At least in this way, there will be no shortage of new things to see--

But he introduced himself, and there's no question with whether he's lying or not, she assumes he isn't, and he may as well not be, and so she remembers to say; "Benji," before accepting the hand out. It's been about a decade and a half since she's bothered to feel conscious of her name.

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