Yeah, [ is Richie's answer-- easy. But he's easy when he isn't out of his depth, considering. ] Perfect, Carmy.
Hold it there. [ He likes to imagine this reasonable, considering the shelf's being put up for the convenience of Carmy's height specifically.
A thought comes to him, though, as he's drilling the thing in, settling with a whisper in the back of his mind. As the shelf is secured one screw after the other, simple and methodical until Carmy's hands are no longer needed, that whisper grows into a proper shout.
Richie's got a couple other shelves to go, but for a moment he furrows his brows at the one they'd just secured.
Then he faces Carmy to his side, eyes on wisping cigarette smoke and his decidedly unfairly striking profile. ] ...your landlord gave you permission to drill this shit in, right?
[ He likes to think this, too, is a reasonable question, even if permission is the farthest thing from his mind.
Truthfully, drilling holes into Carmen's walls had Richie wondering if this meant he was going to stay here for good. But there's no real way to ask that without bringing to mind all kinds of metaphors related to playing with fire. ]
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Hold it there. [ He likes to imagine this reasonable, considering the shelf's being put up for the convenience of Carmy's height specifically.
A thought comes to him, though, as he's drilling the thing in, settling with a whisper in the back of his mind. As the shelf is secured one screw after the other, simple and methodical until Carmy's hands are no longer needed, that whisper grows into a proper shout.
Richie's got a couple other shelves to go, but for a moment he furrows his brows at the one they'd just secured.
Then he faces Carmy to his side, eyes on wisping cigarette smoke and his decidedly unfairly striking profile. ] ...your landlord gave you permission to drill this shit in, right?
[ He likes to think this, too, is a reasonable question, even if permission is the farthest thing from his mind.
Truthfully, drilling holes into Carmen's walls had Richie wondering if this meant he was going to stay here for good. But there's no real way to ask that without bringing to mind all kinds of metaphors related to playing with fire. ]