Some people crash two or three times and then learn from their mistakes
We are the ones who don't slow down at all
We are the ones who don't slow down at all
"It's okay," she assures, instead of restating her forgiveness, because perhaps he needs to hear that instead. Hotaru doesn't offer it with expectation for his own forgiveness. In fact, she isn't betting that he'll ever forgive her. She has come to terms with that. Never let it be said that Hotaru is the type of woman to hold on to things long since lost, no matter how she may desire to.
Humming quietly, she wraps the coat tighter around her, feeling somehow stripped bare with even the smallest compliment from him. It's not even rightly a compliment. An evaluation of her traits really. But done so in a positive light, it still makes her ache, feeling undeserving. "Here I was thinking it was because they were scavengers," she laughs humorlessly. Opportunistic predators that preferred their prey alive beneath their talons, but which would descend upon any remains of a kill if it meant their bellies were full. "Your nyala is all looks - just like you." She doesn't have the heart or bravery to wink, but her grin has the ghost of something playful in it.
The offer makes her pause. It's...monumental, really. Even if she wanted to turn a blind eye, Hotaru is all too aware this is a gesture. Of what, she isn't quite sure. It would get her home to the twins faster too, and would help her get over the trepidation that has kept her from shifting back to it after the injury she'd sustained escaping the mountain reaches of Halo during the invasion. "I...if you have the time." Leaving the ball in his court even though Sunjata had extended the offer in the first place. Even so, if he didn't retract the offer, Hotaru intended to accept.
Humming quietly, she wraps the coat tighter around her, feeling somehow stripped bare with even the smallest compliment from him. It's not even rightly a compliment. An evaluation of her traits really. But done so in a positive light, it still makes her ache, feeling undeserving. "Here I was thinking it was because they were scavengers," she laughs humorlessly. Opportunistic predators that preferred their prey alive beneath their talons, but which would descend upon any remains of a kill if it meant their bellies were full. "Your nyala is all looks - just like you." She doesn't have the heart or bravery to wink, but her grin has the ghost of something playful in it.
The offer makes her pause. It's...monumental, really. Even if she wanted to turn a blind eye, Hotaru is all too aware this is a gesture. Of what, she isn't quite sure. It would get her home to the twins faster too, and would help her get over the trepidation that has kept her from shifting back to it after the injury she'd sustained escaping the mountain reaches of Halo during the invasion. "I...if you have the time." Leaving the ball in his court even though Sunjata had extended the offer in the first place. Even so, if he didn't retract the offer, Hotaru intended to accept.
And there's nobody there to catch us when we fall
HOTARU
