[What's strange is that Thancred isn't unfamiliar to these sorts of quiet, understated kindnesses — it's just that he's usually the one extending them, not receiving them. He's the one with the coat offered up to someone in need of a little extra shelter, or comfort, or even just reassurance. He's been utterly spoiled for comfort these past few bells; it may well be more doting in the span of a single day than he's been recipient of otherwise in a year or more.
But battered and bruised and exhausted or not, there are some instincts that never quite quit, and he doesn't stay asleep when he's approached; he wouldn't live very long on missions in the field if he did. So he's awake enough to feel the coat drape over him, and to suss out who it is who's drawn near him even without really looking, and for a second he just...lets himself have it. This rare, fatherly kindness he doesn't deserve, that always reminds him in the strangest way of Louisoix Leveilleur.
It's when Bixing turns to go, though, that he realizes he needs to say something to show he's awake, because he's not staying to hover or monitor him otherwise.]
...Damned kind of you.
[Strange how being injured so badly makes it all the more pronounced, how badly he's craved these little kindnesses lately.]
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But battered and bruised and exhausted or not, there are some instincts that never quite quit, and he doesn't stay asleep when he's approached; he wouldn't live very long on missions in the field if he did. So he's awake enough to feel the coat drape over him, and to suss out who it is who's drawn near him even without really looking, and for a second he just...lets himself have it. This rare, fatherly kindness he doesn't deserve, that always reminds him in the strangest way of Louisoix Leveilleur.
It's when Bixing turns to go, though, that he realizes he needs to say something to show he's awake, because he's not staying to hover or monitor him otherwise.]
...Damned kind of you.
[Strange how being injured so badly makes it all the more pronounced, how badly he's craved these little kindnesses lately.]