miles baines: riff-raff! street rat! (mimicks) wrote in emillion,
[HANA (Nobles) - 10:00AM]
Miles watched the other man bow and prevaricate, chronicling each little detail in his head and measuring them against everything he’d ever seen from the spymaster over the years. He still couldn’t be sure, but…
“Wherever did you so assiduously acquire the abilities of such pleasant, posturing performance?” Miles asked, smiling a bit too toothily and falling into a familiarly pompous alliteration—like prying at a scab, testing the waters with this bombastic performer. “You don’t sound like you’re from around here, and don’t look like you’re from Sako.”