// smile like you mean it //
“Ah, yes, my mistake. Quite a simple rule book.” He corrects himself with a chuckle, watching her dramatics as her hand finds her chest as if she’s solemnly swearing something into existence. He sees through it, though, with her penchant of disappearing into the shadows, of fighting strongly and precisely like the sharpened blade she’s become.
Certainly not the doe eyed mermaid she was once before.
And in lieu of his own embarrassment, the butcher tosses out a breadcrumb, one that has him unsure whether or not it was new information, and if it was perhaps it would distract from the way his cheeks flare a touch red with his awkwardness. “It was not a long relationship, to be fair. And I was admittedly oblivious for much of it.” Snorting softly, he steps down the beach further and spots a shell sticking out of the sand. Crouching before it to pluck it from the sand, he continues. “It began as a playful bargain of going on a date, however I was not fully aware of how dates worked these days.” He chuckles softly, content for the courting and the shopping as opposed to anything else. “So it was rife with miscommunication from the start.” Shrugging casually, he hoists a fully intact conch shell like it’s a prize, grinning over his shoulder at her.
Certainly not the doe eyed mermaid she was once before.
And in lieu of his own embarrassment, the butcher tosses out a breadcrumb, one that has him unsure whether or not it was new information, and if it was perhaps it would distract from the way his cheeks flare a touch red with his awkwardness. “It was not a long relationship, to be fair. And I was admittedly oblivious for much of it.” Snorting softly, he steps down the beach further and spots a shell sticking out of the sand. Crouching before it to pluck it from the sand, he continues. “It began as a playful bargain of going on a date, however I was not fully aware of how dates worked these days.” He chuckles softly, content for the courting and the shopping as opposed to anything else. “So it was rife with miscommunication from the start.” Shrugging casually, he hoists a fully intact conch shell like it’s a prize, grinning over his shoulder at her.
Astaroth
// take a chance and you could seize it //







