[ The distinction between what comes from being aroused and a bit down would be hazy even for Crais right now -- there's just too much overlap, and too many places where one is feeding into the other.
It probably doesn't really matter, except in as much as it's turning up the intensity on what's happening and his reactions to it.
Nothing they're doing is entirely comfortable for him, and that's the point.
He doesn't open his eyes when he hears Washington approaching, and certainly doesn't resist the blindfold - but he does actively push into Washington's thigh for a moment, with his jaw tensing just a little. The time he spends there means that reaction gets... handled and put aside.
Just like Washington's face at his neck has his fingers twitching and the path of the rope twining around his wrist makes his shoulders tense and breath catch. It's arousal, but it's also just... low level fear born of a heightened sense of vulnerability. More intense than would happen with Cy, but not so intense that it's more than tension in his shoulders and up the back of his neck. Tension that, thanks to the impact of heat, turning into a definite muscle tremor His breathing going a bit more shallow and erratic and pulse speeding up a bit more.
He doesn't actively press into the hand at his thighs but fingers even suggesting inward movement means his knees slide out a little further and further apart. Following the suggestion and then breathing more evenly and deeply again.
Given how blunt he is, direct and transparent, the reactions here are subtle for the moment.
Pressure and voice work to keep him pretty damn okay though and... he's absolutely bending into Washington to handle himself. Relying on him more, responding to him more.]
Frequency, duration, or degree?
[ Annnnd there's the start of a softer edged slur, something a little...blurred in his voice. ]
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It probably doesn't really matter, except in as much as it's turning up the intensity on what's happening and his reactions to it.
Nothing they're doing is entirely comfortable for him, and that's the point.
He doesn't open his eyes when he hears Washington approaching, and certainly doesn't resist the blindfold - but he does actively push into Washington's thigh for a moment, with his jaw tensing just a little. The time he spends there means that reaction gets... handled and put aside.
Just like Washington's face at his neck has his fingers twitching and the path of the rope twining around his wrist makes his shoulders tense and breath catch. It's arousal, but it's also just... low level fear born of a heightened sense of vulnerability. More intense than would happen with Cy, but not so intense that it's more than tension in his shoulders and up the back of his neck. Tension that, thanks to the impact of heat, turning into a definite muscle tremor His breathing going a bit more shallow and erratic and pulse speeding up a bit more.
He doesn't actively press into the hand at his thighs but fingers even suggesting inward movement means his knees slide out a little further and further apart. Following the suggestion and then breathing more evenly and deeply again.
Given how blunt he is, direct and transparent, the reactions here are subtle for the moment.
Pressure and voice work to keep him pretty damn okay though and... he's absolutely bending into Washington to handle himself. Relying on him more, responding to him more.]
Frequency, duration, or degree?
[ Annnnd there's the start of a softer edged slur, something a little...blurred in his voice. ]