The sudden change in her tone made the grouchy grump look back at her quickly, surprised and a little startled by the effect of his words - or rather the tone of them. For a moment he felt pleased, but as he kept watching the mud-splattered angel stammer out apologies he found that victory didn't taste very good at all; shutting up a blabbermouth apparently wasn't a good thing to do.
Struggling with himself for a while, the pale-maned equine eventually sighed and dropped the head down lower, lips nibbling awkwardly at a sooty knee as he watched her from the side. "You should practice reading the mood" he muttered, the edge definitely gone from his tone - it almost sounded like an apology, though Lace wasn't sure whether he really did feel sorry... Maybe a little, perhaps, but not enough to warrant the actual words. "Sometimes people just want to be left alone... But you're here now, and what's done is done."
Stirring where he stood, the long legs shifted in the shallow water. The lapping of the waves was slowly starting to cover the dark limbs with sand and silt, leaving deep holes in the sand when he pulled them out. Pale eyes watched absently as they slowly began to fill up, mind straying from the past into the now rather awkward present and what he was supposed to do now. With a stranger sprung upon him it was hard to find the tone again; the ocean seemed black and boring rather than moonlit and dreamy, and the distant stars were only that - distant, and rather scornful looking with their cold glares.
"Go wash up before you sleep" he eventually said, after another sideways glance revealed a Rei that was about to fall asleep where she stood. "How did you get so dirty anyway?"
Oh, how Fajira would have scolded him. She had a way of keeping him in line, a true skill in bringing out the best and kindest in him; she would not approve of how he ordered this girl around, not after almost making her cry. Truth be told he wasn't very impressed with himself either - it was just one of those days where everything seemed to go wrong and all his words came out sounding harsher than intended.
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