better and worse, better for her hands and worse for her stomach as it tumbles. she shakes her head, light and still held down by the hands shackling her to him, him to her. they're weighty, but in a nice way. ]
It wasn't comfortable. It is now.
[ since he's been considerate and leaned a little, letting her fingers lock a bit more together as if sealing a dealing. physical contact, affection, is something she isn't used to, but it feels easier when her mind can't cling to it the way it might other times; it isn't something scary normally either, but it isn't something easy to give or receive.
she can tease and poke kaito like he does her, she can hug march and hold her hand like she's done before, but... for others, there's a certain boundary they need to cross themselves first. malkuth can't assume it's fine, or that they'd be welcome to it, though there's a difference in dragging someone along and--
this, something like this. her mind drifts to how she'll be dancing with kaito too once the class opens, hands touching in a different way, and if this has got her heart squeezing in a way it hasn't before-- that'll be worse, somehow, in a way she doesn't, can't think about. she remains in the moment, tilting her head up to look at vergilius and then away again just as fast. ]
I don't think I should drink around you.
[ but it's said with more of a laugh than anything serious. ]
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better and worse, better for her hands and worse for her stomach as it tumbles. she shakes her head, light and still held down by the hands shackling her to him, him to her. they're weighty, but in a nice way. ]
It wasn't comfortable. It is now.
[ since he's been considerate and leaned a little, letting her fingers lock a bit more together as if sealing a dealing. physical contact, affection, is something she isn't used to, but it feels easier when her mind can't cling to it the way it might other times; it isn't something scary normally either, but it isn't something easy to give or receive.
she can tease and poke kaito like he does her, she can hug march and hold her hand like she's done before, but... for others, there's a certain boundary they need to cross themselves first. malkuth can't assume it's fine, or that they'd be welcome to it, though there's a difference in dragging someone along and--
this, something like this. her mind drifts to how she'll be dancing with kaito too once the class opens, hands touching in a different way, and if this has got her heart squeezing in a way it hasn't before-- that'll be worse, somehow, in a way she doesn't, can't think about. she remains in the moment, tilting her head up to look at vergilius and then away again just as fast. ]
I don't think I should drink around you.
[ but it's said with more of a laugh than anything serious. ]