"It feels different when it's you," he blurts out of nowhere. "Like something like syrup, I think. When you...when you've half the mind to touch me."
How so? Well, sweet and thick like molasses or a treacle. Head tilting, Hal imagines the syrup that's always drizzled on the tarts. Alas, he scarcely enjoys them, unfortunately, far too meager in his coppers when the season begins to shiver and the tinsel begins to hang. At any rate, he's not given over to such pleasures when he's often ran ragged and to the quick of his bones, but the memory of warmth and liquor in his system? Like magic. Spiced, even. Eyeing Thero, drusy, he feels -- half a mulled wine and the quaver of his lightning. "Is that what," he struggles to find his words again, words caught glancing on lake and and ponds and stream. "Is that what's supposed to happen? That comforting, I mean?" He's so brined. Why's he rambling? "Does anyone else start feeling the way I do?" / @learningtodie liked for a starter.