[ talking about mundane, meaningless things like how many shirts he owns helps; it detracts away from the topic at hand, with the rapidly cooling soup-soaked shirt still on the floor behind her. it also helps him to not be so aware of her hands on him, the steady firm press of her fingers around his hands. his heartbeats must be running fifteen hundred miles a second right now, the echoes of residual panic still very much there in the way his lashes flutter, nervously blinking it back - but he still returns the sheepish smile back to her regardless.
he isn't going anywhere, you know. the moment when he could have jumped out any convenient doorways or windows have passed ... but he still doesn't make a move to pull away or anything, obediently waiting for her cue.
it is only out of sheer practice that he doesn't curl back into himself at the quietly voiced question. ]
Not really! [ which means, yes, or at least partially so. he won't elaborate on it. ] I mean, it's been a while...
[ a while since he'd found himself in such a strange place as this, with such strange people. ]
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[ talking about mundane, meaningless things like how many shirts he owns helps; it detracts away from the topic at hand, with the rapidly cooling soup-soaked shirt still on the floor behind her. it also helps him to not be so aware of her hands on him, the steady firm press of her fingers around his hands. his heartbeats must be running fifteen hundred miles a second right now, the echoes of residual panic still very much there in the way his lashes flutter, nervously blinking it back - but he still returns the sheepish smile back to her regardless.
he isn't going anywhere, you know. the moment when he could have jumped out any convenient doorways or windows have passed ... but he still doesn't make a move to pull away or anything, obediently waiting for her cue.
it is only out of sheer practice that he doesn't curl back into himself at the quietly voiced question. ]
Not really! [ which means, yes, or at least partially so. he won't elaborate on it. ] I mean, it's been a while...
[ a while since he'd found himself in such a strange place as this, with such strange people. ]