[ She takes the brushoff as stop, and so she stops.
For a moment or two after he speaks again, though, she allows herself to study the lines that cut along his neck. (People dislike it when you stare at them. Laura learned that some time ago, and she's tried to avoid doing so to Fenris.) His markings are familiar and foreign all at once, the filled-in version of the thin scars that run along her hands and feet. ]
When we are alone, I will show you.
[ He might not know the gossip about her, all the horrors that swirled around her when she first came to Kirkwall - but there's no guarantee that others on the street don't. ]
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For a moment or two after he speaks again, though, she allows herself to study the lines that cut along his neck. (People dislike it when you stare at them. Laura learned that some time ago, and she's tried to avoid doing so to Fenris.) His markings are familiar and foreign all at once, the filled-in version of the thin scars that run along her hands and feet. ]
When we are alone, I will show you.
[ He might not know the gossip about her, all the horrors that swirled around her when she first came to Kirkwall - but there's no guarantee that others on the street don't. ]