[RQ] and the rest is rust and stardust

Dantalion

how the fuck am I supposed to know

"Only you would know," Danta points out, though it's probably for the best these days that there aren't too many of either types of children prowling about. Full-grown Ancients are bad enough, as is evident by their antics in the past few minutes. Still, no one had been maimed or hit their head or almost drowned, and so the Maverick settles back in Asta's arms, only to find himself caught in the butcher's dark gaze.

What? he almost asks, only he knows the answer more than well enough by now despite the fact that neither of them will say it, his head tilting into the other man's wandering fingers and his eyes slipping shut for a moment. "For once?" he echoes, a laugh rumbling through his chest at that. "Perhaps here, yes - but I've made it a point to be frivolous as often as I can since waking up." He'd just tripped and fallen into leadership while he was at it.

if we're in love or if we're in pain?

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!