#misspolly

It wasn't the reaction he had been expecting, usually they'd ask how he preferred his coffee, cream or sugar, honey even; He was not subtle in his confusion, wearing it plainly upon the weathered lines of his face.

Darius' smile is a lopsided one, his hand resting lazily over top the coffee that he hadn't touched yet. He shrugs with one shoulder in Polly's direction, the opposite eyebrow lifting, the gesture intended to be a helpless one - though the only thing he was helpless against was resisting the urge to tease the neonate a bit.

The silence lingered between them for a moment. Vayu's head hung low, his stare boring into the ground -- he was not afraid of Polly, and yet he still feared to look her in the eye right now. Would she see something dark? Something wild and frightening, or something too weak to survive in this court? Something unworthy.

And yet, as if nothing had changed at all in her life, she asked him if he wanted a cup of tea.

If this was anyone else, Vayu would assume he was experiencing a fever dream right now. (The Queen, his liege, offering him tea to soothe...?) But because it was Polly, it felt familiar. That didn't mean it felt right though.

He sighed, and raised his head, though didn't quite look the Queen in the eye either. Unconsciously, his hands clawed through the ends of his hair.

"Here, try these instead."

Plastic pouches filled with medical-grade blood were placed on the counter, Polly in the midst of preparing for another day within the bakery. It felt tantamount to tossing a gun on the table during a tense negotiation, a disturbing shock of red in a mundane, pleasant setting where one normally never encountered such a thing. Sudden as a gunshot and the spray of blood to follow, yet it was a necessary evil. An evil gainfully gotten, that hadn't been taken from a stolen life left to wither and bleed out like Sypha had done so many times before. This was kinder, especially for such a new vampire compared to the centuries that Sypha had weathered.

Pocketing their hands in the bulky letterman jacket, blue eyes darted to Polly's.

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