[Prince's cool mask has returned by the time Parker turns away, as if it had never gone, were it not for the slight flush barely visible on his cheeks and the added tension in his shoulders. When she leaves he sighs- another thing he is not supposed to do, a tell that could be dangerous- if he were still a boy on a planet with the weight of a nation across his shoulders. As it is now, there is no one to notice such a weakness- not the sigh and not the hand that raises to press his fingers against his brow, a firm even pressure.
Perhaps not no one, but no one who would be surprised by the fact that he was capable of such things.]
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Perhaps not no one, but no one who would be surprised by the fact that he was capable of such things.]