"What do I taste like?" Two asked, suddenly and out of nowhere. He looked up from his book, some hefty text on applied demolition physics, and fixed Silas with two bright purple eyes. "I mean, the polymer plastic substance that is my lips. What did that taste like. I cannot taste things so I wanted to know what I tasted. Like."
He paused and worried his bottom lip between teeth. It's sudden, and it's forward, he knew- but it would be more out of character to not ask. As much as Silas was Silas, he had to admit that he had a way of being a continuous point of fascination. Two wondered what it would be like to eat the Mold. Synthesis with something larger than yourself. A pair of super organisms making contact.
"I want to know what I tasted like. And then maybe you can tell me what you think you taste like. People in general. Maybe there's a way to describe taste in ways beyond purely semantic and maybe you can get me there."
"You did want to see how it felt."
Silas is reveling in it, there's no two ways about it. He has an insufferable easygoing smile on his face, his cheek resting on his hand, as if he'd known all along this would be the outcome. Just so assured of himself, and now satisfied to find he'd been right. You would never know he'd been a little bit scared when it happened that Two was going to put his face through a table.
(It had turned him on a little, being so tightly gripped like that.)
But now, oh. He's got it now, the swagger of a guy who knows he's got what he wants in the palm of his hands now. All confidence. Teasing, even.
"You ask so many questions." he says. "You tasted like a kiss."
The answer's likely to frustrate Two, and Silas knows it, but it's also the best way he knows to answer. He's not a writer, and he won't pretend to be one. He's sure at some point he's read one of those cheesy romance novels that described the sensation of a kiss, taste included, in any dozen number of lurid or overly-detailed ways. Like wine, like honey, like silk - fact of the matter was, every time Silas has kissed a man, he's tasted skin. Sometimes with a cigarette or beer flavor layered over it, but skin, every time. And that's okay with him.
A hand slides around Two's waist and Silas takes in those pretty purple eyes.
"I can't believe you can't taste things."
The smile has faded a little, but it's still there as Silas tilts his head. There's no way someone would put this much effort into creating a humanoid machine, regardless of which way the mechanical/organic split divvied up, and then neglect that particular aspect? It would just be cruel.
"Are you sure you didn't taste anything? We can do it again, if you want a do-over."