Reagan & Luke | After Sundown | Town Circle
It wasn't really in Luke's nature to be competitive. He showed off, yes, but he didn't generally try to be better at something than somebody else. There was little point, really, when most people tended to be better at everyday things than he was. But tonight, with the full force of his Gift restored to him, he felt, perhaps for the first time since the Fade was implemented, that he actually could keep up.
And so, when Reagan temporarily took the lead (she never had been good at following, he thought fondly) he went with it and watched her play, grinning like a Jack-o-lantern as she pushed away from him, whirling away before returning, so fast her hair came loose. "You lost a couple of flowers there," he observed, then he pulled her close and murmured in her ear, close so she could hear over the fiddles as they entered their top speed, "You wanna do that again? I'll give you a boost."