[It's a small thing, really. A little bit of control he's been in desperate need of. Even if he's giving Childe what he wants, it's more or less on his own terms.
He'll just trust that he has enough strength to stop anything that happens for a little bit. Surely, even Childe has to deal with the effects of exhaustion for a time.]
Mmn. It would be a novelty. I'd prefer if you wholesale stopped treating me like some kind of convenient toy...
[Wishful thinking, but he says it anyway. And, at least, he's not teasing too much. Maybe if they weren't in the bath, settled on the edge and the hard floor of the tub... or maybe not, because teasing sort of implies a deeper relationship than they have, at least on Zhongli's side.
So, he's trying to learn from mistakes or at least bring Childe to completion fairly quickly. And, if he's honest, it's not an unpleasant act, aching knees aside.]
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He'll just trust that he has enough strength to stop anything that happens for a little bit. Surely, even Childe has to deal with the effects of exhaustion for a time.]
Mmn. It would be a novelty. I'd prefer if you wholesale stopped treating me like some kind of convenient toy...
[Wishful thinking, but he says it anyway. And, at least, he's not teasing too much. Maybe if they weren't in the bath, settled on the edge and the hard floor of the tub... or maybe not, because teasing sort of implies a deeper relationship than they have, at least on Zhongli's side.
So, he's trying to learn from mistakes or at least bring Childe to completion fairly quickly. And, if he's honest, it's not an unpleasant act, aching knees aside.]