[ It's not so much routine, Emmrich would say, as it is a scientific control. There are other matters β other people β to which they divert their attention, days and nights that see them apart rather than together, but she's the sun around which he orbits, bright and lovely and lively, new and familiar at the same time. And yes, he typically rises first, but that fact doesn't account for the moments he spends to linger, to simply look at her still sleep-warm and glowing, to tuck the blankets in around her before allowing himself to make his way to the suite's bathroom.
That little mewl gets his attention before her actual call does, the turn of his head bringing the rest of his lean frame along with it, the hem of his robe moving in a circle about his calves. There she is β every day, a different image of her to etch into his memory.
(He sketches her a few more times, in the wake of her note that he'd yet to draw her up to that point β one or two, one or two from memory, one in particular, drawn in a moment of perhaps uncharacteristic fancy, rendering from the waist up the image of her as she'd been atop him the previous night, lips parted and cheeks flushed.) ]
A present? [ he hums, as he settles easily into the space she's set for him, one hand keeping him propped up. ] You do spoil me, my dear.
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That little mewl gets his attention before her actual call does, the turn of his head bringing the rest of his lean frame along with it, the hem of his robe moving in a circle about his calves. There she is β every day, a different image of her to etch into his memory.
(He sketches her a few more times, in the wake of her note that he'd yet to draw her up to that point β one or two, one or two from memory, one in particular, drawn in a moment of perhaps uncharacteristic fancy, rendering from the waist up the image of her as she'd been atop him the previous night, lips parted and cheeks flushed.) ]
A present? [ he hums, as he settles easily into the space she's set for him, one hand keeping him propped up. ] You do spoil me, my dear.