"Maybe, but I always preferred blue." Entirely true, but there's the slightest arch of playfulness that even he's only half aware of.
(Has he laughed more in the past half hour than he has in decades? Yes. Is he doing his best not to think about that? Also yes.)
"I'd be fine with anything, but...let's find you something light."
Steve may notice another theme, as Zerxus leads him through the wardrobe. Decorating boots and gloves, linking clasps and lapel pins, cascading from belts and pockets and mantles - it's always chains.
It's notable, then, that Zerxus finds a shirt without that, and hands it off. "You can unlace that, if it's tight." It's hard to say which of them is broader in the shoulders.
He seems to be having a harder time with pants; the simplest also tend to be the sturdiest. Finally, he pulls out these, and looks over very sheepishly. "...I can keep looking."
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(Has he laughed more in the past half hour than he has in decades? Yes. Is he doing his best not to think about that? Also yes.)
"I'd be fine with anything, but...let's find you something light."
Steve may notice another theme, as Zerxus leads him through the wardrobe. Decorating boots and gloves, linking clasps and lapel pins, cascading from belts and pockets and mantles - it's always chains.
It's notable, then, that Zerxus finds a shirt without that, and hands it off. "You can unlace that, if it's tight." It's hard to say which of them is broader in the shoulders.
He seems to be having a harder time with pants; the simplest also tend to be the sturdiest. Finally, he pulls out these, and looks over very sheepishly. "...I can keep looking."