[ His eyebrow quirks as another yawn works its way out of her, and again he watches her, eyes staying on her face even as he plucks the card from her fingers. He notes the way she fights off sleep, how her eyelids threaten to shut even as she forces them open, how her posture is that much more loose than before. ]
…Alright, then. If you like.
[ There’s a thread of warm amusement in his voice, something that mingles with his skepticism – because determined as she is, Faraday doubts she’ll be able to ward off sleep’s siren call for much longer. He’ll have to convince her to get to bed at some point, he thinks, and that should be interesting. He might even be able to trot out that sort of long-suffering, lecturing tone Emma uses so often on him.
(She’ll hate that, he thinks with some glee.)
He does the trick again – once at speed with his usual flourishes, as he would have performed it in life. A second time without the trappings, still at his normal speed. Without the embellishments, the deception is nearly as clear as day, but the added movements help to conceal the sleight-of-hand at work. The third time he performs the back palm, he performs it at half speed, rotating his hand to show how the trick looks from the back. ]
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…Alright, then. If you like.
[ There’s a thread of warm amusement in his voice, something that mingles with his skepticism – because determined as she is, Faraday doubts she’ll be able to ward off sleep’s siren call for much longer. He’ll have to convince her to get to bed at some point, he thinks, and that should be interesting. He might even be able to trot out that sort of long-suffering, lecturing tone Emma uses so often on him.
(She’ll hate that, he thinks with some glee.)
He does the trick again – once at speed with his usual flourishes, as he would have performed it in life. A second time without the trappings, still at his normal speed. Without the embellishments, the deception is nearly as clear as day, but the added movements help to conceal the sleight-of-hand at work. The third time he performs the back palm, he performs it at half speed, rotating his hand to show how the trick looks from the back. ]