[L has a way about him; maybe it's his wide eyes and apparent youth, or the fact that he really hasn't been physically intimate with anyone in the better part of a year. Even the trysts he has engaged with have had some sort of extenuating circumstance, whether it was a calculating supercomputer or an obsessed successor candidate seeking his affection.
The awkwardness is wholly genuine, even if the innocence might be a touch misrepresented. He laughs again, more loudly... but more slowly, too, as though second-guessing the reaction even as it's happening.]
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The awkwardness is wholly genuine, even if the innocence might be a touch misrepresented. He laughs again, more loudly... but more slowly, too, as though second-guessing the reaction even as it's happening.]
...you're serious.
[Possibly the most surprising thing of all.]