[A skeptical lift of one eyebrow at that. Bren wasn't entirely certain of that explanation, but any thoughts of pressing the issue further ended abruptly as the other man asked -- or well told -- him to call him by name.
He smiled, a small, almost shy thing. He'd smiled more in the not-quite-two-days that he had been here than he had in longer than he could remember.]
Essek.
[Bren repeated, shaping the word like something delicious that he'd forgotten the taste of until just now. It felt right, or almost right. There were other words, names, endearments that something told him should be there, but he did not have them yet, just the empty shapes of them not yet filled in.
When Essek used one for him, in a language he did not understand, he could feel himself flush.]
I suppose you're right, ja. We are beyond those now.
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[A skeptical lift of one eyebrow at that. Bren wasn't entirely certain of that explanation, but any thoughts of pressing the issue further ended abruptly as the other man asked -- or well told -- him to call him by name.
He smiled, a small, almost shy thing. He'd smiled more in the not-quite-two-days that he had been here than he had in longer than he could remember.]
Essek.
[Bren repeated, shaping the word like something delicious that he'd forgotten the taste of until just now. It felt right, or almost right. There were other words, names, endearments that something told him should be there, but he did not have them yet, just the empty shapes of them not yet filled in.
When Essek used one for him, in a language he did not understand, he could feel himself flush.]
I suppose you're right, ja. We are beyond those now.