and indeed, just think: in many ways, body and soul,
i have been more a battlefield —
He questions her comment, and had she had her eyes still, she’d have rolled them at that particular question. Huffing a quiet sigh, she smirks, aiming to look toward him. “You know, adorable. Like… Bunnies or…” She trails off, knowing full well the likelihood of anyone calling him cute is next to none. “Oh, puppies!” She grins to him, fanged and enjoying this distraction.
But she calls him giddy and there’s some offense taken, his voice dropping lower in offense and wounding, and she laughs at that. “Oh, you have now though.” She teases him back. She’d definitely call it giddy. Regardless of what he thinks about it. And he tells her that he was happy, and her smile edges a bit more crooked, girlish at that, a look that Kiada’s own true smiles are born from. “I’m glad you are happy.” She tells him, before that crooked smile shifts toward a smirk.
“But happy doesn’t make your cheeks that red, and you smile that much.” She responds with as much of a knowing look as she can muster. And silently, she wonders why she hadn’t seen the signs before, seen the shift in him toward happiness and boldness versus the quiet aloofness she had been so used to once before
But she calls him giddy and there’s some offense taken, his voice dropping lower in offense and wounding, and she laughs at that. “Oh, you have now though.” She teases him back. She’d definitely call it giddy. Regardless of what he thinks about it. And he tells her that he was happy, and her smile edges a bit more crooked, girlish at that, a look that Kiada’s own true smiles are born from. “I’m glad you are happy.” She tells him, before that crooked smile shifts toward a smirk.
“But happy doesn’t make your cheeks that red, and you smile that much.” She responds with as much of a knowing look as she can muster. And silently, she wonders why she hadn’t seen the signs before, seen the shift in him toward happiness and boldness versus the quiet aloofness she had been so used to once before
— than a human being
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