[ A chuckle for the question, made warmer by the kiss. ]
Absolument pas! Only in battle.
My gowns are black and greens and golds when I want everyone who sees me to remember at whose side I chose to stand.
[ His. Yours. ]
And so that such gowns may remain the pointed message I wish them to be, my other days are spent in white with bits of rose; lace and pearls and petticoats, parasols, silk stockingsβ¦
And garters full of knives.
[ She laughs, then. Kisses his hair and asserts: ]
[ He remembers seeing her, with her knives, and being drawn immediately. To the colors, yes, as a matter of course; he knows himself well enough to admit that. But also her skill was remarkable and vaguely familiar.
Loki supposes he knows where those skills may have come from, now. ]
Petticoats, [ he repeats, ] are those the... giant skirts with a mile of poof bundled up underneath? With the hoops? [ He sounds incredulous but also interested. ] Don't you get hot?
[ Laughter again, shaking her a little where he lies against her chest. It is quiet for the night-time, but with a hint of the shape it might have were it ringing across a summer courtyard. ]
Non. There is a nice breeze around my legs, for the petticoats lie over the hoops and so the mile of poof is kept away from me and may serve its solemn duty of making my skirts fall nicely. I have a great deal of room under there.
[ With the innocence of birdsong on a lovely morning: ]
You may check for yourself sometime, if you like.
[ Her fingers find his earlobe to pull it, cheeky but tender, and then walk their way back to settle at his shoulder again. ]
[ Her laugh, while quiet, is quite lovely Loki thinks. Tomorrow he'll have to discover if she's ticklish at all. ]
Of course I will, without question. [ He chuckled at her little ear pinch before humming in consideration. ]
It depends on what position they hold in Asgardian society. Warriors and the Valkyries wear armor of course. But everyone else? They're like... robes, I suppose. Very, hm, drapey.
Midgardian fashion is more interesting and more complicated.
[ Of course, he says, as if she might know about Valkyries.
Alexandrie opens her mouth to askβ about Valkyries, about Midgardβ but is interrupted by a yawn born of a number of different kinds of exhaustion catching up with her of a sudden combined with the peace of holding a body that hers wants badly enough to recognize that it has convinced itself it does. Safe, it insists, returned, home, strong enough to let her trust that if she sleeps there will be a morning.
She'll remember. She'll ask then. For now she shifts a little to better curl herself around him and rests her head against his, closing her eyes with a sleepy and contented hum. ]
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Absolument pas! Only in battle.
My gowns are black and greens and golds when I want everyone who sees me to remember at whose side I chose to stand.
[ His. Yours. ]
And so that such gowns may remain the pointed message I wish them to be, my other days are spent in white with bits of rose; lace and pearls and petticoats, parasols, silk stockingsβ¦
And garters full of knives.
[ She laughs, then. Kisses his hair and asserts: ]
I am a delicate flower.
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[ He remembers seeing her, with her knives, and being drawn immediately. To the colors, yes, as a matter of course; he knows himself well enough to admit that. But also her skill was remarkable and vaguely familiar.
Loki supposes he knows where those skills may have come from, now. ]
Petticoats, [ he repeats, ] are those the... giant skirts with a mile of poof bundled up underneath? With the hoops? [ He sounds incredulous but also interested. ] Don't you get hot?
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Non. There is a nice breeze around my legs, for the petticoats lie over the hoops and so the mile of poof is kept away from me and may serve its solemn duty of making my skirts fall nicely. I have a great deal of room under there.
[ With the innocence of birdsong on a lovely morning: ]
You may check for yourself sometime, if you like.
[ Her fingers find his earlobe to pull it, cheeky but tender, and then walk their way back to settle at his shoulder again. ]
What do your women wear in Asgard?
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Of course I will, without question. [ He chuckled at her little ear pinch before humming in consideration. ]
It depends on what position they hold in Asgardian society. Warriors and the Valkyries wear armor of course. But everyone else? They're like... robes, I suppose. Very, hm, drapey.
Midgardian fashion is more interesting and more complicated.
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Alexandrie opens her mouth to askβ about Valkyries, about Midgardβ but is interrupted by a yawn born of a number of different kinds of exhaustion catching up with her of a sudden combined with the peace of holding a body that hers wants badly enough to recognize that it has convinced itself it does. Safe, it insists, returned, home, strong enough to let her trust that if she sleeps there will be a morning.
She'll remember. She'll ask then. For now she shifts a little to better curl herself around him and rests her head against his, closing her eyes with a sleepy and contented hum. ]