Xie takes the guitar almost on instinct, looking over it with a still slightly stunned expression. It's pretty basic, decent enough but nothing special, nothing like the incredibly expensive custom strat he has sitting at his apartment, and yet...
Kevin had just.. asked for this. Got them to bring him a guitar. Xie didn't have to beg or bargain or do anything, he just did it.
Gifts did happen sometimes, in Xie's world, often expensive but always with a catch. Sometimes they were a lip service apology for something Zhao Jing had done, a way to get Xie to stop being mad (they never came with an I'm sorry, of course, just the request for them to "put it all behind us and move on"), mostly they were accompanied with some flavour of "here's what you can do to thank me".
He wonders, at the back of his mind, if the catch is coming. What he might have to do to repay this favour. Right now he isn't sure he cares.
He swallows, dragging his eyes away from the instrument and giving Lisa a fleeting but genuine smile before taking it - and the amp - back to his room.
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Date: 2023-10-19 01:13 pm (UTC)Xie takes the guitar almost on instinct, looking over it with a still slightly stunned expression. It's pretty basic, decent enough but nothing special, nothing like the incredibly expensive custom strat he has sitting at his apartment, and yet...
Kevin had just.. asked for this. Got them to bring him a guitar. Xie didn't have to beg or bargain or do anything, he just did it.
Gifts did happen sometimes, in Xie's world, often expensive but always with a catch. Sometimes they were a lip service apology for something Zhao Jing had done, a way to get Xie to stop being mad (they never came with an I'm sorry, of course, just the request for them to "put it all behind us and move on"), mostly they were accompanied with some flavour of "here's what you can do to thank me".
He wonders, at the back of his mind, if the catch is coming. What he might have to do to repay this favour. Right now he isn't sure he cares.
He swallows, dragging his eyes away from the instrument and giving Lisa a fleeting but genuine smile before taking it - and the amp - back to his room.