”are you… smelling me?” @secondbcrn — sent from this prompt (x) still accepting!
he's been caught. he'd tried to be somewhat subtle about it, standing behind benedict, just out of his line of sight, and barely leaning it to sniff at his clothes, but he hadn't been careful enough, apparently. ‘ ...have you been smoking? ’ he doesn't answer benedict's question, posing one of his own instead, his voice low so that they're not overhead by the siblings that are lingering nearby. there's the telltale whiff of tobacco and smoke that clings to benedict's waistcoat, and anthony can only wonder how he got past the discerning nose of their mother as they all left the house without it being noticed. perhaps he'd slipped outside whilst everyone else had been dancing; that's certainly happened before. which leaves anthony to wonder where in the bloody hell his invitation was.
