Yes, though I never tire of hearing your thoughts.

[Be they about him or something else, he always wants to hear what is on the other vampire's mind. No matter how many times they do this or how many times Astarion chooses to call him beautiful, it always feels like the first, always makes his skin tingle and his heart ache to beat again.

He feels precious under Astarion's careful care. Something no one else does, afterall before he was disposable and now he is black court, either feared or expected to be rough. Not like something broken and held together by sheer force of will.

Astarion knows.]

Though, it is you who is beautiful, the control you still held while tied up so exquisitely.. it was stunning.