How do I keep myself from fallin' apart when I ain't never felt part of a whole?
I do, she agrees softly, and there is a small warmth budding in her chest as the moment between them unspools longer and longer. Nerves settling and hackles smoothing with each second that he does not deny her as her worst anxieties had imagined. Hotaru has come face to face with so many people she hadn’t sought out in the past few days, and it has wrung her out emotionally and mentally. Knowing she hasn’t ruined this, even with certain actions out of her control, it’s solid ground she has desperately needed.
Emboldened, she wriggles lazily across the snow and leans in to swipe a rough tongue against his ear, a purr vibrating in her chest. It startled the bug, which jingles as it flies in a short hop to land on Deimos’ back instead. Hotaru snorts a laugh internally. I agree. Tell me when you intend to seek him out - the twins will be older by then, and I will accompany you. She misses the young man and would be inclined to see him even if they did not have work to do.
Emboldened, she wriggles lazily across the snow and leans in to swipe a rough tongue against his ear, a purr vibrating in her chest. It startled the bug, which jingles as it flies in a short hop to land on Deimos’ back instead. Hotaru snorts a laugh internally. I agree. Tell me when you intend to seek him out - the twins will be older by then, and I will accompany you. She misses the young man and would be inclined to see him even if they did not have work to do.
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