KOA
Things turn so quickly it gives him whiplash; he has to blink to regain his footing as she... apologizes? "What-- Soh, that's not what I--" He stumbles, stops, scrunches his brow. How on earth did they get here? Maybe now is the time for him to get angry, to grow defensive at the reminder of how she'd clawed into his heart, but honestly? "Oh, hush," he says with a low chuckle, shaking his head as though to brush the weight of their past away. "You weren't terrible. We were both young and stupid, and didn't know what we were doing."
Koa still doesn't, it would seem, because as Soh barrels on in a selfless offer to get the fuck out, the Dragoon's response is to smile. Not a half smile, not something wan: an honest, bemused, teasing thing, which eases the tired lines from beneath his eyes and makes his stubbled cheeks into apple curves. "Shh," he cuts off her apology, once again shaking his head. "I don't own the Greatwood, and even if I did, I'm not sending you away." Her hand is still inside his, and now he looks down upon it, turning it gently and running his finger absently across her palm.
"You don't have to carry it all either, Soh. That's what I was trying to say."
Koa still doesn't, it would seem, because as Soh barrels on in a selfless offer to get the fuck out, the Dragoon's response is to smile. Not a half smile, not something wan: an honest, bemused, teasing thing, which eases the tired lines from beneath his eyes and makes his stubbled cheeks into apple curves. "Shh," he cuts off her apology, once again shaking his head. "I don't own the Greatwood, and even if I did, I'm not sending you away." Her hand is still inside his, and now he looks down upon it, turning it gently and running his finger absently across her palm.
"You don't have to carry it all either, Soh. That's what I was trying to say."
Let me go, I don't wanna be your hero
I don't wanna be a big man
Just wanna fight with everyone else
I don't wanna be a big man
Just wanna fight with everyone else
Code stolen from Queen Sky
