#lindethiel

She’d been lurking just around corners or down hallways for the entire day. Any time Laure would glance her direction, Lindethiel would spin on her heel and dart the other way, or zip around the corner out of sight, or throw herself into the closest room that had an open door. That trend continued for the entire day:  Lindethiel following Laure but always at a distance and always running off when noticed. She might have always been a bit clingy, but this was a new level of awkward goblin.

As the evening wore on and the day drew nearer to close, she peeked once around a corner to find Laure alone. So she hovered a bit longer, like some sort of anxious cat debating how hungry it was and if that bird looked pecky. Just when the tension was likely on the cusp of being Genuinely Annoying she slipped around and tried to look casual in her approach. 

“Hey. Goldenboy– Laure. Uh, so look, I um–” Fidgeting was not her usual method, and she apparently noticed herself doing it as she abruptly straightened and cleared her throat. “I don’t really know who else to ask about this stuff, and uhh- I just have some questions, and– well, about– I mean, you get me, so I thought– so, the wedding night?”

“Finally decided to talk to me then?” he asked, a lopsided smile, “I wondered if you were going to bother. I hadn’t realised that I’d suddenly become particularly scary and unapproachable overnight.”

He looked both ways up and down the corridor, no-one being there at the moment. However, if Lindethiel truly wanted a serious answer and if her fumbling and reluctance to approach him before asking anything was to be believed as serious and not an elaborate ruse, then out in the open might not be the best place to talk. He nodded to the left that she follow him and started walking.

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“Thank you?” he asked quietly, slightly moving his arm asideto allow her to rest more comfortably, “I don’t recall having done anything tobe thanked for.”

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Rubbing at his hair with a towel now and one wrapped tightly about his hips, he knew the timbre of the knock and the fact there was no wait before the door had opened just confirmed it for him. He’d sighed softly, risen from the bath he’d not long drawn and made himself decent before going through to see his visitor.

“What a pleasant surprise!” he chuckled lightly as he emerged from his bedroom and stopped to look at the plate she set town, hands stilling and he looked up at her, feeling a very slight heat in his cheeks, though he couldn’t help laughing.