[It's not uncomfortable, that closeness. Maybe that's part of the problem when it comes to him: even hidden away beneath layers of armored plating, she never feels barred from him. Their footing measured only by his guilt, her necessary deceptions.
She tucks her face in against his arm.]
Maybe I'm just cheating to keep you from catching up.
[In truth it's just habit. Talon has standards, expectations that match her own— she doesn't know how to turn it off. Let anyone else into those vulnerable gaps.]
no subject
She tucks her face in against his arm.]
Maybe I'm just cheating to keep you from catching up.
[In truth it's just habit. Talon has standards, expectations that match her own— she doesn't know how to turn it off. Let anyone else into those vulnerable gaps.]