[At least this time he's entering by the front door and (presumably) without stopping to seduce a half-dozen of her neighbors first, so it's an improvement on his end of things.
Howard allows himself to be ushered inside pre-hug - no matter how much intimacy he's seen on the streets here, Peggy is Peggy, and there's no changing that. He's fortunate enough to be permitted this much, he knows as he pulls her into an embrace. Heat rises under his skin in a parody of another sensation he's all too familiar with - that must be the chroma he's heard about. (He wonders just how that energy is transformed into power to run everything biological and mechanical, but that's a secret to work out another time.)
Once he lets her go (and the seductive whisper of chroma makes it hard to relinquish her, but Howard can control himself on occasion, mostly when it pertains to Peggy), he grins roguishly at her.]
If I have to build another fortune from the ground up, there are worse ways to do it, that's for sure.
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Howard allows himself to be ushered inside pre-hug - no matter how much intimacy he's seen on the streets here, Peggy is Peggy, and there's no changing that. He's fortunate enough to be permitted this much, he knows as he pulls her into an embrace. Heat rises under his skin in a parody of another sensation he's all too familiar with - that must be the chroma he's heard about. (He wonders just how that energy is transformed into power to run everything biological and mechanical, but that's a secret to work out another time.)
Once he lets her go (and the seductive whisper of chroma makes it hard to relinquish her, but Howard can control himself on occasion, mostly when it pertains to Peggy), he grins roguishly at her.]
If I have to build another fortune from the ground up, there are worse ways to do it, that's for sure.