Sorbet spoilers incoming.

[avoirfaim]

[For a man who often chooses his words with as much ease as he does care, Hannibal is awfully silent. That is the face of someone stumped, worrying their jaw by the foreign nature of the whole thing, the mundane's picking and chiding included.]

Have you considered that comparing my behavior to that of a pre-pubescent, sexually compromised vampire might not be the way to my heart? While I can see why you would be inclined to make such a leap, it is a far cry from the key to my conscience, or what may be left of it.

As for that matter with Abigail and Mischa...again, a topic you may want to reconsider. If you must pry at the hinges of my psyche, i would choose my options more wisely.

[Oh yes, changing the subject from Will to Abigail, that's going to get your mundane to stop poking.]

On the contrary, I don't expect you to stop, I expect you to get thoroughly distracted by a different problem. Notably, one that I have had much more time to consider, and one that I happen to know you are emotionally invested in. Bon appétit. And breathe.

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[avoirfaim]

I can't say that I know many who do, despite how well they pay me to do just that.

[you see then, why he's so against being compared to someone who is sexually compromised.]

[seetoomuch_dontseeenough]

When you're being paid, there's an obligation to listen.

[There's also a point where it feels invasive, how intuitively someone can take you apart.

But he's not saying that out loud, it sounds too much like an admission or weakness.]

[avoirfaim]

Yes, there is. A strange but not unsurprising characteristic of the human condition, that being paying others to do to yourself what you adamantly avoid in most social situations.