and I loved you so much it was making me sick
She drifts off, watching him watch his hands, only half aware of what might be going on behind almond eyes. So when Zeph stirs so abruptly no one is more surprised than Vai, and she raises her eyebrows as if impressed that he managed to get on his feet without keeling over or throwing his guts up. More than that - he even manages to pull her up as well. With a flicker of a smile, she follows suit, only to find herself caught in his grasp.
”I’ve still never seen one of those,” she says of the rhampire, not that her focus is at all on whatever sort of creature it might be. Water and breakfast sounds just fine even in the rain like this. Blue eyes track his expression - on the sky, the clouds, she notes - and silently she steps in to embrace him. It’s a gentle thing, a featherlight touch that shouldn’t jostle him about too much, and she leans in to kiss the side of his neck.
”You called me the sun,” she murmurs, smiling like what he’d said was terribly twee, but she loved it anyway. ”Lead the way - I trust you know where we can get good breakfast?”
”I’ve still never seen one of those,” she says of the rhampire, not that her focus is at all on whatever sort of creature it might be. Water and breakfast sounds just fine even in the rain like this. Blue eyes track his expression - on the sky, the clouds, she notes - and silently she steps in to embrace him. It’s a gentle thing, a featherlight touch that shouldn’t jostle him about too much, and she leans in to kiss the side of his neck.
”You called me the sun,” she murmurs, smiling like what he’d said was terribly twee, but she loved it anyway. ”Lead the way - I trust you know where we can get good breakfast?”
