[SE] and again for good luck

KIADA

“That too!” She chimes her agreement, pushing past her inevitable slip up when it comes to more tender topics like feeling and touching. After Ascending, she’d been broken by the realization of what she’d walked into, and the regrets started pooling in more and more each day. Now, however, she can feel and eat and drink and sleep and touch all to her hearts content, even if at times she still wonders if it’s just a dream.

She brightens, however, at his warm and honest smile, returning it with one of her own. “That has to be it.” Because again, she doubts she’d forget his face should she have ever saw it and paid attention to her surroundings more. As for what she’s doing? “Wandering, mostly. Hunting for the bloodlust and that’s about it unfortunately.” A hint more honesty offered, a boon of I have literally nothing going on in my life these days aside from pretending not to be a ghost.

But it does make a nice little segue into her placing the fur back onto his shoulder, and very casually stepping ahead of him in a slow departure as he catches up. “Oh it is. And we’ve already done so many.” She whines again, but draws silent for the moment as he guides her down toward the Inner Quarter, scanning the spiderwebs that dazzle and streak across practically every surface. She leans in to nudge him with her elbow, a playful smile blooming on her face as she offers a little haughty “I told you so. It’s everywhere in here.” Which made for quite an annoying amount of movability, given that they couldn’t break through the webs as easily as normal spiders.

But she does casually point out one of the small, gaseous arachnids crawling on a web in the corner. “This is what’s making them.”

i was young and stupid then, always playing for the win
don't know where we got this bad, i just wish i had you back