[ The comment about marriage catches his attention briefly (Mika’s thought about it? Oh. Hmm.) before he tunes into the rest of what Mika’s saying. ]
… As?
[ But he looks at Mika as if every word spoken is the most interesting, the most important, and he’s only too eager to hear the rest. Like he’s adoration (for Mika, specifically) made into a person that’s not man, not angel, not demon - all longing. Incomplete in all those ways, but completely besotted in this one way, at this one task.
Mika could read from the driest tomes in the world and Ginger would memorize the sound his voice, the shape of his vowels, the pauses in his sentences. Ginger is not normal about this, and - he really doesn’t care to be. ]
no subject
… As?
[ But he looks at Mika as if every word spoken is the most interesting, the most important, and he’s only too eager to hear the rest. Like he’s adoration (for Mika, specifically) made into a person that’s not man, not angel, not demon - all longing. Incomplete in all those ways, but completely besotted in this one way, at this one task.
Mika could read from the driest tomes in the world and Ginger would memorize the sound his voice, the shape of his vowels, the pauses in his sentences. Ginger is not normal about this, and - he really doesn’t care to be. ]