[ His ironic little smile disappears quickly, and a discomfort lights in his eyes as she demonstrates. Intimacy, he can handle - obviously. He's intimate quite often, with a great many people. But this is a different sort of intimacy than sex, than kissing - the emotion of it, the warmth, it's...It's something he doesn't know how to react to. So, weakly: ]
Lakshmi...
[ And then he tries to gather himself, quipping desperately: ]
You're not going to actually ask me to get up early for all of that? That would tear me to pieces.
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Lakshmi...
[ And then he tries to gather himself, quipping desperately: ]
You're not going to actually ask me to get up early for all of that? That would tear me to pieces.