[al DEH bur rahn]
✮ Caria, Guinevere ✮
▻ Ain (x Caria), Falak (x Guinevere) ◅
He can see that his surprise and gentle tease had led the wrong idea into Guinevere’s mind. He had always been the less proper of the brothers but he wondered if perhaps he shouldn’t have been so very attentive to propriety with a woman putting herself out there for him in this way. "I..m… I’m sorry. I did not mean to offend you… if that is what I have done. I have not lived with the Sadim long enough to learn such things it seems." He does not interrupt her, allows her to bleed some of her disheartened feelings - it wouldn’t do to propose to her what his tease had been meant to imply.
Marriage had all but been offered, had she maintained her confidence in freeing him of his mess. He wonders if he should tell her or if she would only further be embarrassed as to have missed his implied meaning. "I..If that is too personal… I suppose asking you to join me for a drink and telling me more would be even worse then huh?" She takes her step back, however, and he decides that now was not the time to decrease his flirtation. It brings him forward two more steps.
"I am a notorious flirt, Guinevere." He says this bluntly because bluntness was perhaps better for her than his sidelong courtship. "I did not say that I would not accept your offer..." His smirk is thick with the meaning he had tried to bridle before. "I only expressed to you that if you did not mean for intimacy with me then that was a dangerous route to take in the eyes of the Sadim." He remembers his time in the Miran festivals, watching women make their intentions known by openly grooming their prospects in the midst of festivities.
"I did not want to take advantage of you if your intent had been..." he could not say ‘innocent’, as she was so painfully innocent even if she had meant the flirtation. "an invitation as well as a declaration of favor." He slides himself beside her, a clear declaration of his own interest in light of what he had just spoken.
"I know the Mirans of the Sadim versus those who have joined us after. I would not want you to believe me manipulative enough not to inform you of what such an offer was extending to me as a Grand Prince and stallion."
OF SALEM’S EASTERN DUNES
▻ eight years - arabian - sooty bay rabicano - 15.2 hh ◅