[Severus glances at the door, though it's simply a way to avoid meeting Anders' eyes rather than ensure no one is listening in on their conversation. If Martha was there, she would have burst in by now and demanded an explanation.
It's only a second or two, time enough to concoct a half-truth, before he returns his attention to the mage.]
It was my own doing. I came to you because I hoped you would leave no scar.
[It's close enough. What he avoids saying, of course, is that she was uninvolved, or that he wished to avoid worrying her.]
no subject
It's only a second or two, time enough to concoct a half-truth, before he returns his attention to the mage.]
It was my own doing. I came to you because I hoped you would leave no scar.
[It's close enough. What he avoids saying, of course, is that she was uninvolved, or that he wished to avoid worrying her.]
Vanity, shall we say?
[...Right.]