[Ardyn laughed under his breath, slouching lazily in the chair he'd taken up with his left arm hanging over the back of it.]
[And then, despite looking more than ever like a haphazardly-dressed disaster that one would believe had slept in a tree in the garden last night, he came out with something hauntingly operatic. As smoothly eloquent as his voice so often was, right now it was every bit the captivating force that one might expect from someone with a country at their command.]
[And...maybe there was something just a bit sincerely forlorn to it.]
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[And then, despite looking more than ever like a haphazardly-dressed disaster that one would believe had slept in a tree in the garden last night, he came out with something hauntingly operatic. As smoothly eloquent as his voice so often was, right now it was every bit the captivating force that one might expect from someone with a country at their command.]
[And...maybe there was something just a bit sincerely forlorn to it.]