Even his usual perky tone comes out sluggish, though more good-humored than his grumbling. It's largely because the petting is lulling him into comfortable drowsiness, but some of it is because he's maybe just slightly less fine than he's pretending. Just a little.
Though not being able to effortlessly fake that he is says a bit about the reality too.
But things could be a lot worse, and there are better people to expend worry-energy on anyway—that he believes. Kinder people, honest people, loving people, who appreciate such things. Magolor blinks up at Kai from his lap.
"But I guess if you reeeeeally have that much attention to spare, it's not like I don't like attention."
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Even his usual perky tone comes out sluggish, though more good-humored than his grumbling. It's largely because the petting is lulling him into comfortable drowsiness, but some of it is because he's maybe just slightly less fine than he's pretending. Just a little.
Though not being able to effortlessly fake that he is says a bit about the reality too.
But things could be a lot worse, and there are better people to expend worry-energy on anyway—that he believes. Kinder people, honest people, loving people, who appreciate such things. Magolor blinks up at Kai from his lap.
"But I guess if you reeeeeally have that much attention to spare, it's not like I don't like attention."