If there was an easy answer to that question, he would give it, instead of pausing here tight-shouldered and awkward like all his vulnerabilities had suddenly been put on display – but of course there is an easy answer, the one that comes to mind without his bidding and against all his efforts to bury it – because he wants things to be different.
From an outside perspective, it doesn't look like he moves so much as blurs, briefly, in the direction of the door, but he steps back right where he started again. A hand pushes back through his hair instead, still fast enough to be barely visible, but more controlled.
"I only thought–" lamely, shaking his head, "It was better to do this here than in front of Wanda next time she invites you for dinner." A misdirection, but not a lie; he'd meant this to be a kindness, of sorts, at the very least to Wanda.
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If there was an easy answer to that question, he would give it, instead of pausing here tight-shouldered and awkward like all his vulnerabilities had suddenly been put on display – but of course there is an easy answer, the one that comes to mind without his bidding and against all his efforts to bury it – because he wants things to be different.
From an outside perspective, it doesn't look like he moves so much as blurs, briefly, in the direction of the door, but he steps back right where he started again. A hand pushes back through his hair instead, still fast enough to be barely visible, but more controlled.
"I only thought–" lamely, shaking his head, "It was better to do this here than in front of Wanda next time she invites you for dinner." A misdirection, but not a lie; he'd meant this to be a kindness, of sorts, at the very least to Wanda.