[She reacts not with chilliness, as Murasaki may have, but resigned affection, and Hannibal is quite content to be embraced. He returns it, arms curling around the woman chastely even though his mind threatens to be a little more than that.
He allows his chin to drop against her shoulder, their temples to threaten to brush against each other.]
Engrossed in my studies, but lacking in companionship. [And it's true; for all that Hannibal may have missed her, he's nearly completion of medical school now and it is what he breathes, sleeps, and eats. And he enjoys every moment of it, even if all the lab testing and work scholarship duties in the world would never completely eclipse his mind from wandering to...other topics.]
no subject
He allows his chin to drop against her shoulder, their temples to threaten to brush against each other.]
Engrossed in my studies, but lacking in companionship. [And it's true; for all that Hannibal may have missed her, he's nearly completion of medical school now and it is what he breathes, sleeps, and eats. And he enjoys every moment of it, even if all the lab testing and work scholarship duties in the world would never completely eclipse his mind from wandering to...other topics.]