Aspel Cassul: When in doubt, Aspel! (weaponry) wrote in emillion,
The sudden narrowing of eyes, caused an internal rush of uncertainity. Had his pauses, his switching between 'friend' and 'companion', and the fact that he was bring up this person at all have actually meant nothing? It was possible that maybe the hints she thought were there weren't at all but.... Could she be that out of touch with her family heritage? Could she...... It had been so long, perhaps she was more lost than she thought.
"You know," Aspel paused, fingers falling down to the stem of her wine glass once more as they played around with it, her attention almost seeming to pull completely away from him for a moment with her eyes angled downward towards the glass and table. "I am beginning to believe that may not be such a terrible idea." Another pause as Aspel tried to summon her courage. "Would you like to count, or would you like for I to do such honors?" Finally, her eyes would rise in attempts to meet his, hopefully, she wasn't playing with a fire that couldn't be put out.