Need a hundred lifetimes kinda love
The teasing snaps into something more real as her quiet reasoning is offered into their pocket of warmth. He hears the small tremble of worry that builds the shadow of that statement, the reason she’d have risked frostbite just for reassurance. He’s been disappointed plenty of times himself, although maybe not the same extent she has, but it’s part of why he takes something like a promise as seriously as if you’re signing a contract with the universe. Word should be more binding than just something carelessly tossed out, and it’s part of what he loves about her. She means things when she says them, however outlandish her plans, he’s never doubted that she’d fulfill them. He never once worried that they wouldn’t be standing exactly here.
She doesn’t let the shade of the concern linger though, so he doesn’t chase after it, just tucks it away like something he might need to eradicate later. Instead, laughter rises up in a visible plume, curling like joy has always been as easy as a cup of cocoa steaming in the cold. ”I meeeeaaaaan, it is still chilly, so might need to explore more ways to stay warm yet.” Although it’s said with all the casual attention weather usually deserves, there’s no denying the sly undercurrent that absolutely answers her dare with a yes.
Glancing down at the sudden ignition of something fiercer in her, his ‘brow lifts in quiet expectation. The question hits him with a smile that could almost be considered guilty. He shakes his head faintly, stepping back with a long sigh to leave her embrace in order to claim his own mug of hot chocolate. ”In case you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a very sheltered city boy. So most of the time when you ask, ‘have you…’, my answer will be no.” There’s a touch of disappointment to the look he grants the mountain of whipped cream before he takes a cautious sip.
Soldiering had been one of the few jobs he could take up under his parents that would get him out of the city, but with his family also woven into the same career, and much higher ranking, they’d had the pull to keep him stationed in Stormbreak almost always. Only the threat of the Family, and finally being old enough, had loosened some of those restraints enough to make further patrols more reasonable for them. It’d still been worth it over becoming a cook or something that would have had no good reason to leave the city. ”I want to see everything though,” he reassures, nose tipped with cream and wrinkling against the feel as he swallows the piping hot sugar with only the faintest hint of burning his tongue. ”Especially with you.” Cheesy, he knows, and his smile says as such as he tries to reach with his tongue to get the cream. Cheese doesn’t make it less true though. ”I feel like I could take on the whole world with you.”
She doesn’t let the shade of the concern linger though, so he doesn’t chase after it, just tucks it away like something he might need to eradicate later. Instead, laughter rises up in a visible plume, curling like joy has always been as easy as a cup of cocoa steaming in the cold. ”I meeeeaaaaan, it is still chilly, so might need to explore more ways to stay warm yet.” Although it’s said with all the casual attention weather usually deserves, there’s no denying the sly undercurrent that absolutely answers her dare with a yes.
Glancing down at the sudden ignition of something fiercer in her, his ‘brow lifts in quiet expectation. The question hits him with a smile that could almost be considered guilty. He shakes his head faintly, stepping back with a long sigh to leave her embrace in order to claim his own mug of hot chocolate. ”In case you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a very sheltered city boy. So most of the time when you ask, ‘have you…’, my answer will be no.” There’s a touch of disappointment to the look he grants the mountain of whipped cream before he takes a cautious sip.
Soldiering had been one of the few jobs he could take up under his parents that would get him out of the city, but with his family also woven into the same career, and much higher ranking, they’d had the pull to keep him stationed in Stormbreak almost always. Only the threat of the Family, and finally being old enough, had loosened some of those restraints enough to make further patrols more reasonable for them. It’d still been worth it over becoming a cook or something that would have had no good reason to leave the city. ”I want to see everything though,” he reassures, nose tipped with cream and wrinkling against the feel as he swallows the piping hot sugar with only the faintest hint of burning his tongue. ”Especially with you.” Cheesy, he knows, and his smile says as such as he tries to reach with his tongue to get the cream. Cheese doesn’t make it less true though. ”I feel like I could take on the whole world with you.”
Kaisel
I could say forever, but forever ain't long enough
Wearing a watery blue, faded and stretched-out sparkling hair tie on his left wrist
