[h2]Luke Schwarz -- VGNB Dorms[/h2]

He visibly deflated, ahoge following suit and drooping in response almost immediately.

[b]"You've been staking me out, haven't you?"[/b] he asked, entirely forgetting to deny any physical attraction to Miss Harken. Not that it mattered, anyhow... Attractive was attractive. It was one thing to adhere to politeness regarding it, but he wasn't denying anything.

At least, not to himself.

Seriously though, there was no way she'd walked in and immediately [i]known[/i] that, right? No way, such things were impossible. She must have had some method of divining information like that, too, because from what he knew of Mindaro, little though it was, she was not one to make assumptions.

Shoulders and hair rising from their dispirited slump, he folded his arms adamantly, meeting her icy onyx gaze with his own in an already-familiar confrontation of two very different psyches.

[b]"Miss Mindaro, I have to ask. Is this [i]really[/i] worth going through all this trouble?"[/b]

He already knew the answer he would get, but he wanted to ask in any case.