He had expected the pursuit of knowledge to drive Arkady more than pleasures of the flesh, just from what he's seen. He sharply re-evaluates the previous conversation, and the rest of his impression. This is one of the things he finds the most delightful about humans: how they can still surprise and amaze him, even after thousands of years. Ereuvir had figured there was a high likelihood he was at least partially losing a lover in all of this, his curiosity simply insatiable even if that was the case. That he might be gaining one certainly had been a thought, but not something he considered likely enough to be a motivating factor.
He tugs just slightly on Arkady, just enough to make him need to put his hands down on the table to support himself. If they land on either side of the skull, all the better to drive the point home,
"And if I told you it was a price more than an offer?" Ereuvir's capable of it, has done far worse in the name of torturing the souls under his control. But that's much more a function of his job and his being than it is something he typically desires. He wouldn't actually force Arkady to sleep with him in order to see his brother.
But he is very interested to know if he would and he's also interested to know if the other man would even consider it a price at all, or if he would desire it still, even if phrased that way.
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He had expected the pursuit of knowledge to drive Arkady more than pleasures of the flesh, just from what he's seen. He sharply re-evaluates the previous conversation, and the rest of his impression. This is one of the things he finds the most delightful about humans: how they can still surprise and amaze him, even after thousands of years. Ereuvir had figured there was a high likelihood he was at least partially losing a lover in all of this, his curiosity simply insatiable even if that was the case. That he might be gaining one certainly had been a thought, but not something he considered likely enough to be a motivating factor.
He tugs just slightly on Arkady, just enough to make him need to put his hands down on the table to support himself. If they land on either side of the skull, all the better to drive the point home,
"And if I told you it was a price more than an offer?" Ereuvir's capable of it, has done far worse in the name of torturing the souls under his control. But that's much more a function of his job and his being than it is something he typically desires. He wouldn't actually force Arkady to sleep with him in order to see his brother.
But he is very interested to know if he would and he's also interested to know if the other man would even consider it a price at all, or if he would desire it still, even if phrased that way.