（ the gesture earns him a few points, even if cy's got a lighter of his own — he pulls the cigarette he had tucked over one ear down and lights it obligingly. takes one deep drag and, after a moment, offers the cigarette out to share. ）

Yep. I was an early adoptee of Sluttopia's 'If Wishes Were Horses Beggars Would Ride (cock)' multi-level-marketing remix.

（ who lets him use words, it is a fuckin' mystery. ）

So that means you're one of those perilously observant, mildly terrifying types, huh?

（ surly nod indeed. but the taste in the air around this man is like blood and smoke and iron, and cy — knows what that means, and that it was likely the thing that deepened the draw for sasuke. ）