[The least he could do would be to fight her on it, the best he could do would be to leave her and her insults behind... But he doesn't do any of it at all. He looks at her even though she wants nothing more than for him to look away, he sees her more clearly through the potent mix of reality and communion, their bond already enhanced by the Blight curing of the revious month, and she-
She doesn't push him away. She doesn't want to be alone, even as she craves to hide. Her fingers are white-knuckled and shaky where they grip his clothing, torn between shoving him and pulling him closer. She almost demands that he leave before he sees any more of this weak, raw weeping, her lips part to try to find the words, a soft hitch in her throat when-
She is kissing someone.
No, he is kissing her, she didn't start this, she wasn't that sort of woman, she barely wanted to be a woman at all-
Yet it's so against what she expected to happen that at first... she just kisses him back. (At least, that is how she will explain it to herself. It's an accident. She didn't mean to.) Her clutch on him tightens, her eye squeezes shut, her body craves anything in that moment that feels like comfort and acceptance no matter what her mind wants... and the words she'd been trying to say die temporarily in a useless sound between lips.]
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She doesn't push him away. She doesn't want to be alone, even as she craves to hide. Her fingers are white-knuckled and shaky where they grip his clothing, torn between shoving him and pulling him closer. She almost demands that he leave before he sees any more of this weak, raw weeping, her lips part to try to find the words, a soft hitch in her throat when-
She is kissing someone.
No, he is kissing her, she didn't start this, she wasn't that sort of woman, she barely wanted to be a woman at all-
Yet it's so against what she expected to happen that at first... she just kisses him back. (At least, that is how she will explain it to herself. It's an accident. She didn't mean to.) Her clutch on him tightens, her eye squeezes shut, her body craves anything in that moment that feels like comfort and acceptance no matter what her mind wants... and the words she'd been trying to say die temporarily in a useless sound between lips.]