[ Dropping baggage is never so easy as wishing it gone, at least not on his own. If it were so simple a thing he wouldn't be wound quite so tightly, would not have so many masks, so many fake smiles. But being told that such things have no please here? Ordered in some small way to put it from his mind as long as he is in this room?
Somehow that makes it possible. A little of the tension in his shoulders goes loose, a subtle softness overtaking the faint clench of his jaw and grip of his hands on his own knees. The idea of being hurt shouldn't make his breath quicken- he knows how he was built, how he works, how others might see it. Knows that many wonder if he isn't tired of such things, if pain isn't some sort of backhanded self flagellation for his supposed sins.
Applied properly- he savors it. Something tells him that Bull? Can apply it properly. Zevran wets his lips, and nods. No hesitation. Let someone else carry the weight for awhile. ]
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2015-12-24 07:15 am (UTC)Somehow that makes it possible. A little of the tension in his shoulders goes loose, a subtle softness overtaking the faint clench of his jaw and grip of his hands on his own knees. The idea of being hurt shouldn't make his breath quicken- he knows how he was built, how he works, how others might see it. Knows that many wonder if he isn't tired of such things, if pain isn't some sort of backhanded self flagellation for his supposed sins.
Applied properly- he savors it. Something tells him that Bull? Can apply it properly. Zevran wets his lips, and nods. No hesitation. Let someone else carry the weight for awhile. ]