[ In fact, despite his persistence to this point, he might have accepted that. Firm refusal has a weighty advantage on mild curiosity. In deference to it, he does not push on to ask whether she would try to learn, whether she would draw them if, with practice, she could.
Gaelio permits that to close, shifting focus to her hand. His eyes drop, glancing. ]
With pen? Was the resulting object proportionate?
[ Could she do it by scratching skin with nail? Would a bird be alive or dead? Too much of a barrage, he suspects, when she's as new as he and couldn't possibly know the limits.
He's kept in line by her own returned query. Now his glance flits to his own hand. ]
I've only done it by accident, so far. I think twice.
[ Can't even be sure of that, but if the feeling of those times was anything to go by -- twice. ]
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Gaelio permits that to close, shifting focus to her hand. His eyes drop, glancing. ]
With pen? Was the resulting object proportionate?
[ Could she do it by scratching skin with nail? Would a bird be alive or dead? Too much of a barrage, he suspects, when she's as new as he and couldn't possibly know the limits.
He's kept in line by her own returned query. Now his glance flits to his own hand. ]
I've only done it by accident, so far. I think twice.
[ Can't even be sure of that, but if the feeling of those times was anything to go by -- twice. ]