The thought came unwilling, automatic, threaded with amusement. Where Gregor is reluctant to show expression like that outwardly, his facial features creaky with disuse at being bent toward anything but Imperially stern or withdrawn and melancholy, inside it's much simpler. He can allow his face to stay relaxed in the neutrality he's been schooled in all his life and still convey what he wants to. Miles feels things so brightly, with such absolute certainty, it's like having the sun focused at him in short bursts. Gregor finds it soothing, lighting up the murky corners of his thoughts.]
I know you won't.
[Gregor, of course, is extremely adept at managing multiple conversations simultaneously. All that experience with political nuance. He's sure if he weren't the emperor, Miles would have roped him into covert action ten times already. ... Maybe he could still be persuaded to.]
no subject
The thought came unwilling, automatic, threaded with amusement. Where Gregor is reluctant to show expression like that outwardly, his facial features creaky with disuse at being bent toward anything but Imperially stern or withdrawn and melancholy, inside it's much simpler. He can allow his face to stay relaxed in the neutrality he's been schooled in all his life and still convey what he wants to. Miles feels things so brightly, with such absolute certainty, it's like having the sun focused at him in short bursts. Gregor finds it soothing, lighting up the murky corners of his thoughts.]
I know you won't.
[Gregor, of course, is extremely adept at managing multiple conversations simultaneously. All that experience with political nuance. He's sure if he weren't the emperor, Miles would have roped him into covert action ten times already. ... Maybe he could still be persuaded to.]