Honey wherever you go, I know
"Oh, right," he mumbles sheepishly around the corner of the kiss, the soft press and warmth lingering like mist caught over water. He forgot the Crow of Torchline and all her trinkets meant she has numerous tricks up her sleeve...her foot? Wing?
He braces for something different than this. Given that she'd started to go defcon 2 on him when he'd been running around the various regions this season, she's remarkably chill about this in comparison. There's some key differences he'll better recognize later—like the fact they're talking about it, or that he'll still be around, and how helpful it is that they aren't each convincing themselves the other is withdrawing completely—but for now he's just happy not to have her detonate.
Surprise marks him with the offer, features drawn up tall for a moment. "Yeah?" A steady smile replaces the worry, affection drifting gentle into his voice. "That'd help a lot, actually. Thanks, Ro." It's her next gesture that really makes him pause with disbelief. For her to be willing to lend aid to a place that matters so much to him without any hesitation, he knows there's weight to that, and he knows it's not just for him, but it brightens him all the same. "Really!?" He leans towards her, a laugh tumbling free and light as he delivers a storm of attention to her face, kisses like rainfall over her cheeks, her chin, the edge of her ear, and a more meaningful one across her lips. "That means a lot, Flora. Thank you." He breaths it out, honest and smiling, before slumping back into the bed.
As he sinks against it and tugs her in, the way she answers, folding against him as though she's a sheet herself, it's a perfect fit to his need. She slots into the nook of his body like a puzzle piece, filling in holes he didn't even know he had. One arm wraps around and behind her, absently sweeping back her hair and running along her shoulder. The other keeps its seat on her leg, fingers curling against her knee. He breathes in deep, like maybe he could hold onto this serenity in the future, when everything will surely need it.
His gaze lifts from the slow study of her skin he'd fallen into, resting back on her aqua stare. This is not what he'd thought would put an edge to her. "Yeah, I know that," he starts, a touch confused. "No one does." She does her best to explain, and he gets it, he does, but to him that's not the issue. "I don't think it's about dibs." Maybe, in the most boiled down sense of it, but Kaisel doesn't think that's why Koa's mad. "I mean, he knew you were single and he didn't—but he still felt—" Kaisel sighs, trying to fit the words around everything that's still sharp. "I betrayed him." It comes out softer than he means, too flimsy to handle any more pressure from volume. "I knew how he felt about you...and I ignored it." Maybe it's a question of loyalty in the end, and Kaisel's had finally wavered enough that trust got put on the line.
"Wait—" He'd been so tangled in his shit he hadn't quite registered what she said, but it's slipping in now. "What happened with him and Soh?" His 'brow furrows. "I thought they were, y'know, a thing after the party. She even took Noe in after she got cured."
He braces for something different than this. Given that she'd started to go defcon 2 on him when he'd been running around the various regions this season, she's remarkably chill about this in comparison. There's some key differences he'll better recognize later—like the fact they're talking about it, or that he'll still be around, and how helpful it is that they aren't each convincing themselves the other is withdrawing completely—but for now he's just happy not to have her detonate.
Surprise marks him with the offer, features drawn up tall for a moment. "Yeah?" A steady smile replaces the worry, affection drifting gentle into his voice. "That'd help a lot, actually. Thanks, Ro." It's her next gesture that really makes him pause with disbelief. For her to be willing to lend aid to a place that matters so much to him without any hesitation, he knows there's weight to that, and he knows it's not just for him, but it brightens him all the same. "Really!?" He leans towards her, a laugh tumbling free and light as he delivers a storm of attention to her face, kisses like rainfall over her cheeks, her chin, the edge of her ear, and a more meaningful one across her lips. "That means a lot, Flora. Thank you." He breaths it out, honest and smiling, before slumping back into the bed.
As he sinks against it and tugs her in, the way she answers, folding against him as though she's a sheet herself, it's a perfect fit to his need. She slots into the nook of his body like a puzzle piece, filling in holes he didn't even know he had. One arm wraps around and behind her, absently sweeping back her hair and running along her shoulder. The other keeps its seat on her leg, fingers curling against her knee. He breathes in deep, like maybe he could hold onto this serenity in the future, when everything will surely need it.
His gaze lifts from the slow study of her skin he'd fallen into, resting back on her aqua stare. This is not what he'd thought would put an edge to her. "Yeah, I know that," he starts, a touch confused. "No one does." She does her best to explain, and he gets it, he does, but to him that's not the issue. "I don't think it's about dibs." Maybe, in the most boiled down sense of it, but Kaisel doesn't think that's why Koa's mad. "I mean, he knew you were single and he didn't—but he still felt—" Kaisel sighs, trying to fit the words around everything that's still sharp. "I betrayed him." It comes out softer than he means, too flimsy to handle any more pressure from volume. "I knew how he felt about you...and I ignored it." Maybe it's a question of loyalty in the end, and Kaisel's had finally wavered enough that trust got put on the line.
"Wait—" He'd been so tangled in his shit he hadn't quite registered what she said, but it's slipping in now. "What happened with him and Soh?" His 'brow furrows. "I thought they were, y'know, a thing after the party. She even took Noe in after she got cured."
Kaisel
I'd give up half of forever, just to be with you
Wearing a watery blue, faded and stretched-out sparkling hair tie on his left wrist
