I swear I still believe but I don't know
Ronin does as he is told, and he's rewarded for it with sweet touches and a weight against his legs and lower back that feels somehow more than. Humming a note of something close to bliss into the blanket turned cloud, he wants to turn and face her, but at the same time to stretch himself out endlessly and expose himself to Safrin's attentions. How many can claim to receive this sort of treatment from a goddess, after all?
"Hm...? She what?" His eyes blink open, brows furrowing to hear that Hotaru had reacted with such hysteria violence at the news that a child was coming into the world that she had no part in. Oh, the irony of that. "No, I didn't know that--" Cut off by the sensation of Safrin stretching further across him, Ronin inhales sharply, and lets his eyes shut again.
He winces to hear the emphasis in her voice, nodding. "I know - I meant more that I had appeared in Remi's life with an unexpected child. It feels somehow hypocritical to be this angry about it given all I have done in the past..." And yet. "I have never felt a hate like this, Safrin."
"Hm...? She what?" His eyes blink open, brows furrowing to hear that Hotaru had reacted with such hysteria violence at the news that a child was coming into the world that she had no part in. Oh, the irony of that. "No, I didn't know that--" Cut off by the sensation of Safrin stretching further across him, Ronin inhales sharply, and lets his eyes shut again.
He winces to hear the emphasis in her voice, nodding. "I know - I meant more that I had appeared in Remi's life with an unexpected child. It feels somehow hypocritical to be this angry about it given all I have done in the past..." And yet. "I have never felt a hate like this, Safrin."
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