[ Well, they probably are going to hurt each other a little bit right now. It's just another thing they're going to have to deal with as a result of everything that just happened. Both of them seem fairly accustomed to the idea of hurting people they care about; it doesn't make it any more palatable, but at least it's not a brand new experience to handle.
He waits while she deliberates, just continuing what he was already doing and trying to brace himself in the chance she agrees, work out what he'll do and how okay he'll be if she refuses again. But when she does, when she opens up even that little bit and lets him in, he's an oddly calm presence soaking into the spaces she's left open. If she were in his mind - and he doesn't know if she can sense it right now regardless, since they're so close and she seems so hyperaware right now - it wouldn't be this calm. It would be frenetic, jostled and bustling, a little buzz like electricity and the slight sense of uncomfortable potential shock as a result. That's really nothing too out of the ordinary - it's usually at least the first three anyway. But this is one area he's oddly good at compartmentalizing for, projecting or producing one outward idea while possessing a different internal one. A lifetime of interviews - he can't school his face as well as he probably ought to, but he can direct his energy. ]
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He waits while she deliberates, just continuing what he was already doing and trying to brace himself in the chance she agrees, work out what he'll do and how okay he'll be if she refuses again. But when she does, when she opens up even that little bit and lets him in, he's an oddly calm presence soaking into the spaces she's left open. If she were in his mind - and he doesn't know if she can sense it right now regardless, since they're so close and she seems so hyperaware right now - it wouldn't be this calm. It would be frenetic, jostled and bustling, a little buzz like electricity and the slight sense of uncomfortable potential shock as a result. That's really nothing too out of the ordinary - it's usually at least the first three anyway. But this is one area he's oddly good at compartmentalizing for, projecting or producing one outward idea while possessing a different internal one. A lifetime of interviews - he can't school his face as well as he probably ought to, but he can direct his energy. ]
Yeah, you know me. Gotta be proactive. Hands-on.