[ Hei keeps his face schooled to polite wood, a trick of expressive expressionlessness that's almost a coded warning. The road they are on is perfectly straight, with grassy dunes on either side. The street lights burn orange, and once in a while, a rabbit speeds out into the headlights, eye glowing like a bike reflector, leaping for the other side. ]
[ He doesn't so much as glance at Korra. Yet he can see her in his peripheral vision, the faintest, oblique reflection off the windshield, a full picture solidifying from fragments of color and motion. Her face, even at its most inexpressive, is like a proverbial window to the soul, and Hei feels he can look right through that lucid mask and see all of the girl's inner processes at work: colorful gears turning, a chaos of cogs clicking and tumbling. ]
[ Blandly, ]
There's a Burger-King up ahead. We should stock up on bottled water and snacks.
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Date: 2015-03-23 01:38 am (UTC)[ He doesn't so much as glance at Korra. Yet he can see her in his peripheral vision, the faintest, oblique reflection off the windshield, a full picture solidifying from fragments of color and motion. Her face, even at its most inexpressive, is like a proverbial window to the soul, and Hei feels he can look right through that lucid mask and see all of the girl's inner processes at work: colorful gears turning, a chaos of cogs clicking and tumbling. ]
[ Blandly, ]
There's a Burger-King up ahead. We should stock up on bottled water and snacks.
[ re: It's none of your business. ]