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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 16, 2010 16:37:00 GMT -5
Adrian's eyes widened and he jerked his head at Adrien.
"He doesn't know- would you please be a little less disruptive-"
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Post by Jon Osterman on Sept 16, 2010 21:05:50 GMT -5
Jon's pupilless eyes may or may not have momentarily glanced, dismissively, at Adrien.
"He is sleeping."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 16, 2010 21:41:35 GMT -5
"Yes, and if you disturb him, he'll wake- here, consider this my confirmation, right now."
He lay back down with his back to Jon.
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Post by Jon Osterman on Sept 16, 2010 21:50:02 GMT -5
"Adrian."
The voice was impassive, but somewhere in its deep echoes stirred something like human contemplativeness.
"We do not discuss the matter on Earth..."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 16, 2010 21:54:18 GMT -5
Adrian rolled over.
"Is that your way of saying you want to take this outside? Fine, fine..."
He climbed out of bed- no sense in being modest in front of Jon, but if he were going to Mars again he felt that clothes were in order.
"Give me a moment."
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Post by Jon Osterman on Sept 16, 2010 22:04:16 GMT -5
It couldn't be called waiting, what he did. He stood still through time, his glowing frame nude and impassive as a statue of a god.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 16, 2010 22:06:28 GMT -5
Adrian managed to throw on some clothes and went to leave a note on his abandoned pillow. "All right. I'm ready." He was still looking at Adrien.
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Post by Jon Osterman on Sept 16, 2010 22:07:55 GMT -5
"He is not moving," said Jon, as though movement were the only thing that could have held his attention in the still figure curled and precious beneath the sheets. "His chest rises and falls and his eyes roll in sleep, and that is the extent - "
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 16, 2010 22:09:54 GMT -5
"Yes, Jon, that's what sleep is. I was intending to enjoy a bit of it myself."
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Post by Jon Osterman on Sept 16, 2010 22:13:58 GMT -5
"You will have much tiime to sleep," said Jon like stone as he seemed to grow brighter and yet more fuzzy and out-of-focus in the moments before transporting them both.
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