Right Mind
Waking up to the clod's sunny disposition has her even more dour than usual.
"Well, hi!"
"You're insane."
"Good morning to you, too!" he quipped.
She couldn't even be sure that was sarcasm.
"Look," she grunted, hours later. "How long are you gonna keep this up? I'm not putting you up for any nights, so if you're secretly some missing princeling used to gilded spoons shoved in your mouth, you'd better-"
"Oh, I don't mind," he smiled. "I like the stars, so…"
He shrugged, the same big-dimpled grin still impossibly adorning his face like some tawdry ornament.
She asked him, through clenched teeth as she breathed between their gaps, "So what's this about? You ever gonna tell me?"
Again he shrugged, still obliviously (disgustingly) cheerful.
Some foreign while passed, and he piped up.
"I saw you, you know. That other day when I came with you."
"You mean the day you started trailing me like a dog," she muttered, mostly to herself.
It was the first – most likely, the last – time he mentioned it directly.
"When you saved that old couple as they were attacked by bandits," he clarified, nodding.
"Thing is," and for once he stopped walking without her having to. "The thing is, people aren't like that anymore."
He gesticulated wildly in some unfathomable, needlessly animated gesture.
And she stopped too, if only because she hadn't yet seen him without a ridiculous smile plastered to his mug up to this point.
"People don't do things like you did. Not many I've seen, anyway. 'F you ask me,"
And there was his foolish, foolish grin, back and even wider and possibly more sickening than before.
"Maybe you're the one who's insane, huh?"
And from then on, she decided it wasn't worth it, and dropped the matter of his stalking entirely.
Author's Note:
Funny thing is I had the idea for these drabbles and the characters' roles before I decided who would actually be the characters themselves, but I really did eventually want to make it about these two, so if they seem OOC, that'll be why. Fear not, they're still them at their core, and I'll be sure to make that clear soon enough.