Being Gallows-side doesn't mean he'll be there the whole time. Already, Loxley can't help but think out a little bit of personal strategy, not wishing to be seen as constantly around, but it seems prudent to at least be one hand in a more permanent way than his normal dipping in and out. Perhaps it'll be he, sparing Gwenaëlle some boredom.
"I did have the thought, though," he adds, "about such a living arrangement. If she's to be there a week or so, you know. I could impose on Richard, or," his fingers splay at her waist, settle, "if it wouldn't be stressful, my being in your hair, I could stay with you."
And he stops himself from adding in reflexive qualification, about the ways in which she might turn him down, if she wished.
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Being Gallows-side doesn't mean he'll be there the whole time. Already, Loxley can't help but think out a little bit of personal strategy, not wishing to be seen as constantly around, but it seems prudent to at least be one hand in a more permanent way than his normal dipping in and out. Perhaps it'll be he, sparing Gwenaëlle some boredom.
"I did have the thought, though," he adds, "about such a living arrangement. If she's to be there a week or so, you know. I could impose on Richard, or," his fingers splay at her waist, settle, "if it wouldn't be stressful, my being in your hair, I could stay with you."
And he stops himself from adding in reflexive qualification, about the ways in which she might turn him down, if she wished.