[ Rau tilts his cheek into Gil's hand with an evaluating hmmm. It takes a touch longer than normal for his face to relax into the the small, tight smile that usually portends some level of needling, though now it's possible to trace the expression to the tiny crinkles at the corners of his eyes. ]
Is it too banal -- [ his voice is deliberately innocuous. Without breaking eye contact, he turns his head so that his curved lips skim over the palm of Gil's hand, stopping at the tip of his forefinger ] -- to suggest that you put your mouth to better use?
[ His lips close over the tip of Gil's finger, teeth just barely scraping against skin. By way of illustration, of course. ]
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Is it too banal -- [ his voice is deliberately innocuous. Without breaking eye contact, he turns his head so that his curved lips skim over the palm of Gil's hand, stopping at the tip of his forefinger ] -- to suggest that you put your mouth to better use?
[ His lips close over the tip of Gil's finger, teeth just barely scraping against skin. By way of illustration, of course. ]