( One hand, reaching out, collecting the ribbon in loose fingers. Sliding it free, before he flicks upward with the leaf, leaving enough room for him to pitch forward in a calculated fall, press lips in brief to the sweat banded above where the ribbon lay, central of Lan Zhan's forehead. )
Thank you.
( Then the grunt of effort as he hauls himself sideways, less dismounting and more rolling off to flop at Lan Zhan's side for the moment, leaving the cooling leaf over Lan Zhan alone. He holds up the claimed ribbon, arm circling to encourage a loose looping around. He tugs at his held wrist, to see if it might be freed to address this necessity, the winding and tying of ribbon around arm. )
Need your outer robes next. For cleaning. And I brought you new ones! Blue ones.
( Clean ones is the point, and cooler for it in the moment, but also the guided reasoning, the steps toward logical excuse for fewer layers, in the relative privacy of their grotto and his husband's inequity before the demands of the heat, sticky, close, and nowhere near as endearing as a child of similar temperament. )
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( One hand, reaching out, collecting the ribbon in loose fingers. Sliding it free, before he flicks upward with the leaf, leaving enough room for him to pitch forward in a calculated fall, press lips in brief to the sweat banded above where the ribbon lay, central of Lan Zhan's forehead. )
Thank you.
( Then the grunt of effort as he hauls himself sideways, less dismounting and more rolling off to flop at Lan Zhan's side for the moment, leaving the cooling leaf over Lan Zhan alone. He holds up the claimed ribbon, arm circling to encourage a loose looping around. He tugs at his held wrist, to see if it might be freed to address this necessity, the winding and tying of ribbon around arm. )
Need your outer robes next. For cleaning. And I brought you new ones! Blue ones.
( Clean ones is the point, and cooler for it in the moment, but also the guided reasoning, the steps toward logical excuse for fewer layers, in the relative privacy of their grotto and his husband's inequity before the demands of the heat, sticky, close, and nowhere near as endearing as a child of similar temperament. )