[ there's a flicker of surprise for just a moment before he manages to temper it. there was an initial desire to play it off, and yet he can see the way her posture seems unsteady, her demeanor... starkly different and yet the same. he knows how shameful it is to get swallowed up in your own desires if just because he's experienced something quite similar. back then he thought of it as just another inconvenience to living in the surface world, and being in such proximity to person he shared a bond with.
he leans in a little, settling his fingers against her skin, as they travel from the side of her face to her jaw. eventually, his thumb settles on her lower lip. his foot inserts itself between the gap of the door, as he shuffles it open a little wider. ] There's nothing scientific about this. [ he gives a soft chuckle. he isn't sure if it's a sensation he imagines, but for a moment the soul that exists within him seems drawn in by her, and he instinctively isn't sure he likes it.
it felt like infringing on something he's purposely kept locked away from others.
he leans in, his lips incredibly close to hers for just that moment. ]
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he leans in a little, settling his fingers against her skin, as they travel from the side of her face to her jaw. eventually, his thumb settles on her lower lip. his foot inserts itself between the gap of the door, as he shuffles it open a little wider. ] There's nothing scientific about this. [ he gives a soft chuckle. he isn't sure if it's a sensation he imagines, but for a moment the soul that exists within him seems drawn in by her, and he instinctively isn't sure he likes it.
it felt like infringing on something he's purposely kept locked away from others.
he leans in, his lips incredibly close to hers for just that moment. ]