Sunbeam Lair auferstehung

in spite of the tension that tightened the edges of his body, mahler found himself somewhat tantalized by the languid, careless movements of the other, the burn of the black eyes toward his own features. and of course, he knew not what ailed the other, nor could he find it within himself to settle nearby. the great paws shifted against the earth; mahler blinked and presently his head sunk down below his shoulders and he regarded the vagrant from his stonelike hunch.
"something i cannot give," mahler's forbidding tones proffered; a question in answer to a question would not have done. and it was truthful, for the musiker could think of no such possession the other could wish of him.