Mun is irritated at OC's refusal to expound on background information.

[overarch]

Shh.

You'll find out.

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[quorrathexplora]

You do realize you're not making her any better inclined to you that way, don't you?

[overarch]

[fleeting smile] These things happen.


[[..he thinks it's funny. Darnit. XD]]

[quorrathexplora]

*sad, sad look* I would have thought one of us would know better than to be overconfident.

[overarch]

Is that not what we are? [takes a fluid step closer, with an odd, quizzical look.] Everything from nothing.

[quorrathexplora]

It is what you are being with somebody who may care for you. Ungrateful is what you are being, as well.

*small shrug* As to what we are? It is what we choose to be, it always was.

[overarch]

[eyes flick down -- almost a pout, though he hides it well from anyone unfamiliar with ISO mannerisms] I didn't choose this.

[almost says something else, too, but discards it, having a feeling there's no way it'd go over very well.


doesn't like being an experiment.

what if this doesn't last.]

What do we have, if not our secrets?

[quorrathexplora]

*catches that, and reaches to stroke his cheek, slow and light. And her answer is without hesitation or doubt*

We have love. Always.

[overarch]

...

[turns his head toward her palm]


Sometimes I forget.

[quorrathexplora]

Sometimes it is difficult to remember, I know. *just cups his cheek, and strokes the arch of it with her thumb, very lightly*

Especially when we remember what happened. But that is not all there is, and it won't be - unless we let it eclipse everything else.

[overarch]

[it would have, if not for this, and he's not sure he wants to share how that strikes him. not yet.

takes her free hand, holds it like a bird between his own and closes his eyes.]

I think I'll ask you someday. How you lived.

[for that long, after all that, and yet you can still say these things and mean them.....]

[quorrathexplora]

*and her fingers wrap around one of his hands, squeezing lightly in return. She nods slightly*

Whenever you are ready, I would be glad to answer.

*maybe it won't be easy, but she would be glad all the same. And it was meaning these things which pulled her out of the abyss.*

[overarch]

[he thought it'd be easier to just... not go there. but maybe he was wrong.]

Thank you.

[quorrathexplora]

You're welcome.

*Nope. Bottling and ignoring things doesn't work.

And then suddenly she is grinning, and leaning up - to kiss the tip of his nose. Just because she can*

[overarch]

[and that prompts an actual laugh, which surprises him, because it's been a long, long time since he did that at all. so he brushes a feather-light kiss against her cheek and smiles.]

Show me around, when I rerezz?

[quorrathexplora]

*OH GOOD! And she'll beam back at him, before sliding her hand back around his shoulders and giving him a hug, tight and easy*

Of course! You are welcome back, and we will all be here to show you that.