queenking: ([neutral] puppy dog eyes)
Saxsice King ([personal profile] queenking) wrote in [community profile] polylogs 2021-07-07 01:37 am (UTC)

Sure. [For a moment Saxsice just stands there, looking at the puddle that's forming around her feet and wiggling her toes absently. Part of her wants to turn and bolt into the woods for some alone brooding time, while another wants to get back into the pool.

Then he speaks and startles a laugh out of her, eyes flying up to his face to try and see if that was a joke. It might've been which is -- interesting. Either he's too awkward to think of something comforting, or this is a roundabout way of being nice. Whatever it is, it jolts her out of her mental spiral a bit.
] Yeah, well, you don't think about that stuff when you live alone. [A beat, then, because he clearly saw the memory, he knows she wasn't alone:] I lived alone until a couple months ago. Haven't gotten around to upgrading. I didn't know he was gonna stay that long.

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