01-02-2021, 06:16 PM
It is good to be greeted with welcome and with kindness. It makes her feel less foolish for thinking of Pteron a friend through all their very odd interactions. Perhaps he is just incredibly polite - but since Vastra isn’t overly capable of hiding her feelings she assumes everyone else is just as honest about them as well.
Though she notes the faint weariness to his voice, and how his answer is not really an answer, she does not ask any further. She wouldn’t want anyone to pry if their roles were reversed - if he wished to tell her, he would.
Besides, she’s plenty distracted by his next words.
The compliment would have earned an eye-roll on any other day, accompanied by a good-natured smile. On this day, on this beach, it earns a faint scowl that she quickly attempts to soften and to explain. It’s not really him she’s scowling at anyway and she’d like for him to know that. “Unfortunately, that glow is the result of pregnancy. And if you’d like to experience it in my place I will happily change places.” Surely the magician that helped her and Brunhilde create Chel wouldn’t be opposed to a tiny little transplant. There’s a teasing sparkle in her eye when she suggests this - it’s a joke but only just barely.
“Not that I don’t like kids but… I much prefer being the father.” She admits with a small quirk of the corner of her mouth. She's much better at being the father, too.
Though she notes the faint weariness to his voice, and how his answer is not really an answer, she does not ask any further. She wouldn’t want anyone to pry if their roles were reversed - if he wished to tell her, he would.
Besides, she’s plenty distracted by his next words.
The compliment would have earned an eye-roll on any other day, accompanied by a good-natured smile. On this day, on this beach, it earns a faint scowl that she quickly attempts to soften and to explain. It’s not really him she’s scowling at anyway and she’d like for him to know that. “Unfortunately, that glow is the result of pregnancy. And if you’d like to experience it in my place I will happily change places.” Surely the magician that helped her and Brunhilde create Chel wouldn’t be opposed to a tiny little transplant. There’s a teasing sparkle in her eye when she suggests this - it’s a joke but only just barely.
“Not that I don’t like kids but… I much prefer being the father.” She admits with a small quirk of the corner of her mouth. She's much better at being the father, too.
VASTRA
@[Pteron]