He'd been feeling better after the few brief games of chess. More relaxed and in control of himself at least.
And then the hand had dropped onto his shoulder and Luxord's voice was in his ear and what precious little peace he'd obtained was obliterated with a few whispered words. For a panicked moment, he considered screaming, despite how little he knew it would do for the situation, but he couldn't seem to get his mouth or throat to give anything but a sharp gasp of shock.
His body had tensed up automatically at the touch, and if Brainiac 5 could have pulled away from the contact, he would have. As it was, he knew it would have been obvious how much he wanted to be elsewhere in the painfully long seconds it took for him to recover enough to speak. "Luxord."
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And then the hand had dropped onto his shoulder and Luxord's voice was in his ear and what precious little peace he'd obtained was obliterated with a few whispered words. For a panicked moment, he considered screaming, despite how little he knew it would do for the situation, but he couldn't seem to get his mouth or throat to give anything but a sharp gasp of shock.
His body had tensed up automatically at the touch, and if Brainiac 5 could have pulled away from the contact, he would have. As it was, he knew it would have been obvious how much he wanted to be elsewhere in the painfully long seconds it took for him to recover enough to speak. "Luxord."