Ed and Riddler and all shades in-between them can, in point of fact, get away with a fair amount that others wouldn't. Oswald realised this when he held off exacting revenge in Gotham for as long as possible, holding out some kind of hope for a change of heart in one or both of them. Here, there's every chance that Ed could innocently scuff his toe across even more of Oswald's carefully constructed lines and that Riddler could just stride on over them.
Love-sick isn't a state that Oswald wants to easily fall into, especially when he knows one of the chief symptoms are blindness and shortness of breath, but as he gets into the cab for the short ride the comments he might normally have related to how private cars to and from the gate is part of the proposed four hour experience for the Clockhouse, he's just... distracted. Pleasantly distracted. The kind of distracted that makes him not want to take back the arm Riddler stole.
"Where--" he hears the little crackle in his voice and takes a moment to clear his throat, "Where would inspire a stronger sense of appetite in you, Ed?"
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Date: 2020-06-30 12:45 pm (UTC)Love-sick isn't a state that Oswald wants to easily fall into, especially when he knows one of the chief symptoms are blindness and shortness of breath, but as he gets into the cab for the short ride the comments he might normally have related to how private cars to and from the gate is part of the proposed four hour experience for the Clockhouse, he's just... distracted. Pleasantly distracted. The kind of distracted that makes him not want to take back the arm Riddler stole.
"Where--" he hears the little crackle in his voice and takes a moment to clear his throat, "Where would inspire a stronger sense of appetite in you, Ed?"