Oh sure, I've got a clip. [William fishes it out quickly.
Not so quickly that a keen observer wouldn't notice he'd gotten to staring again, but the lag wasn't conversationally significant. He turns the clip up to offer Severus, its cold black gloss showing the wizard his reflection back to himself, vague and dim.]
Professor. I'd appreciate if you'd share wif us who's it was pissed in y' cornflakes and whevver you turned them into swine, so that we may know the cost of putting our plates in it and proportion our future sins properly. [He cocks his head eight degrees to the left, as if the change in perspective might give him new insight into Severus' mood and cognitions. It's usually at this stage in conversation, he remembers, that Severus finds his verbiage so abominably indecipherable and littered with useless rubbish that he'd snap.
Which would be reassuring, if not exactly pleasant. William is beginning to look worried. The professor was not like this in the last conversation that William made up an excuse to have with him. Snogging straight guys has historically gone worse, actually, but regardless of overall severity and delayed onset, the presentation is. Atypical.]
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Not so quickly that a keen observer wouldn't notice he'd gotten to staring again, but the lag wasn't conversationally significant. He turns the clip up to offer Severus, its cold black gloss showing the wizard his reflection back to himself, vague and dim.]
Professor. I'd appreciate if you'd share wif us who's it was pissed in y' cornflakes and whevver you turned them into swine, so that we may know the cost of putting our plates in it and proportion our future sins properly. [He cocks his head eight degrees to the left, as if the change in perspective might give him new insight into Severus' mood and cognitions. It's usually at this stage in conversation, he remembers, that Severus finds his verbiage so abominably indecipherable and littered with useless rubbish that he'd snap.
Which would be reassuring, if not exactly pleasant. William is beginning to look worried. The professor was not like this in the last conversation that William made up an excuse to have with him. Snogging straight guys has historically gone worse, actually, but regardless of overall severity and delayed onset, the presentation is. Atypical.]