at that, she waves her hand —– “then we can leave in an hour ! – look at this bag ! ” and, promptly, she holds up a pretty little thing, either entirely without a sense of time ( or intentionally, because this isn’t a flight she cares to catch ).
if they miss this plane, it’ll be his head on the chopping board. still, there’s time to sit back and twiddle their thumbs -- so he does, but not without making a show of his discontent, settling back into the chair with a sigh. ❛ charming. but very expensive, i presume. ❜
