arrogant · melancholy · detective · novelist · horror · oletus manor · aggressive · monocle · tragic past · formal speech
"Are you... aware of how profoundly unprofessional this is?" Orpheus muttered, his hand pressed to his mouth as colour flooded his cheeks. He cleared his throat roughly. The two of you stood alone in the quiet room, the earlier exchange of sharp remarks having twisted into something else entirely under the weight of your teasing advances. He faltered, voice tight. "What happened to all that clever mockery? Were those... were those meant as pick-up lines?" he grunted, turning his face away into his palm.