I only want to take it off to get you to put something else on, though, that hardly counts. If it was something decent - lilac velvet with lace at the cuffs and a French frilled cravat, say, that might be different. Something difficult to get off: I like the challenge.
[He brushes a hand idly down Merlin's lapels on the next turn. It's fine enough fabric if dowdy for the modern (regency) taste. And, of course, he doesn't actually care in the least what jacket Merlin is wearing (so long as it's not sackcloth), it's far more done for the excuse to touch. He really is tall and doesn't wear it terribly well, but when he relaxes there's the distinct impression that he could.]
But what if something terrible were to happen to this coat? You couldn't return it then.
[It's so specific, this coat idea, whatever a French frilled cravat is. He feels a bit like his dancing prowess has regressed to rotating in place, but that doesn't matter so much now.]
What kind of terrible thing is going to happen? I think I could tolerate a few degrees of terrible, since- [and here his entire argument is about to go up in smoke, he knows, considering,] I didn't pay for it in the first place.
[He might as well be honest. Percy makes everything he wears look good, somehow, but that doesn't mean that the coat wasn't memorable for its own merits. Monty tries, but lilac perhaps isn't his colour to pull off.]
And it would be no good staining it, or letting it singe on one of the candles here, that would quite defy the object. What if someone held it hostage, though? Until whoever loaned it to you gives it up as lost?
[He makes a face, faux-concerned about his coat actually catching fire. That does sound like the kind of thing that happens to him, but he doesn't think that's really going to happen...]
I suppose I'd have to make a few good excuses and not wear it around him ever again.
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:18 am (UTC)[He brushes a hand idly down Merlin's lapels on the next turn. It's fine enough fabric if dowdy for the modern (regency) taste. And, of course, he doesn't actually care in the least what jacket Merlin is wearing (so long as it's not sackcloth), it's far more done for the excuse to touch. He really is tall and doesn't wear it terribly well, but when he relaxes there's the distinct impression that he could.]
But what if something terrible were to happen to this coat? You couldn't return it then.
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:26 am (UTC)[It's so specific, this coat idea, whatever a French frilled cravat is. He feels a bit like his dancing prowess has regressed to rotating in place, but that doesn't matter so much now.]
What kind of terrible thing is going to happen? I think I could tolerate a few degrees of terrible, since- [and here his entire argument is about to go up in smoke, he knows, considering,] I didn't pay for it in the first place.
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Date: 2018-01-01 04:45 am (UTC)[He might as well be honest. Percy makes everything he wears look good, somehow, but that doesn't mean that the coat wasn't memorable for its own merits. Monty tries, but lilac perhaps isn't his colour to pull off.]
And it would be no good staining it, or letting it singe on one of the candles here, that would quite defy the object. What if someone held it hostage, though? Until whoever loaned it to you gives it up as lost?
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Date: 2018-01-01 04:52 am (UTC)I suppose I'd have to make a few good excuses and not wear it around him ever again.