unmarred: (c. origin)
Mark Pierre Vorkosigan ([personal profile] unmarred) wrote2014-11-11 09:29 am

slipped along the way

(from here)

So... up the stairs they go, mostly side by side. Mark lags by a step or two.

There is a persistent silence.



"I... didn't think you'd react the way you did," he says finally. "I mean, I thought you might—that there might be something there, but not that you'd actually."