fxckery: (such sights you would see)
edward 'ed' 'blackbeard' 'j̶e̶f̶f̶' teach ([personal profile] fxckery) wrote in [personal profile] bookery 2022-04-30 10:01 pm (UTC)

[There's a comfortable balance to the moment--Stede's fingers in Edward's hair, his own fussing idly at his beard. There's a sense of extension between them that's hard to define, a manifestation of the growing sense of unity.

They can both breathe here, in the quiet space where Edward Teach actually exists.
]

Hm. [The breath is thoughtful, attention largely focused on freeing a particularly tangled clump of something unpleasant.] You haven't got one.

[It isn't the same task. It might be an absolute mystery to a man who kept his cheeks clean-shaven with a surprising tenacity despite living at sea.

It might be nice, watching the little wrinkle in Stede's brow as he attended to the work.
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