[open] if you could only see

[exsoldier]

Who: Zack & YOU, plus some closed prompts!
When: Throughout Aguril
Where: Throughout Aefenglom and the Wilde
What: August catch-all: quests, Zack going feral, red string spell stuff
Warnings: Violence due to going feral

[ prompts are in the comments below! if you want a specific starter for anything, you can pm me or hit me up over at demonology! ]

Comments

[long_live_the_queen]

[Kaede's ears twitched back when Zack raised his hand, but he didn't clout her shoulder, or...anything, just left his hand hanging there. What was he...?

--oh. Right. Uh. Shit, hold on.

Kaede's stretched arms made reaching easy, even with how tall Zack was. And he was leaning it forwards, so the red-feathered Chimera didn't even need to stand on her toes more than usual.

She didn't hit his hand very hard, somewhere between a tentative slap and half of an attempt to curl her fingers that she immediately rethought. And there was a noticeable pause beforehand.

Look, she's not good at this.]

[exsoldier]

[ That may or may not have been the most awkward high-five that Zack's ever been on the receiving end of, but he manages to hold back on actually saying that. Mainly because he doesn't want to make Kaede feel bad when they just reached an understanding of sorts.

It's something they can work on, if nothing else.

He reaches out to set his hand on the top of her head, between her ears and antlers, and quickly ruffle her hair. ]

All right, I should get going, but... don't be a stranger, all right?

[ They've passed the hurdle of what she wasn't telling him, and now they can move forward with a clean slate of sorts. ]

[long_live_the_queen]

[That...seemed to go well? Maybe? It sure felt horribly awkward, but Zack didn't seem deterred in the slightest. And it made that weight dragging on her shoulders stay gone.

His hand coming down on Kaede's head was a separate thing, though. And at first, she froze stiff, willing herself not to move. Kaede's eyes pinched closed, but only for a moment. One peeked open, to see what he was up to--

Oh. This wasn't so bad. This wasn't so bad at all. Kaede's hair was very soft, and some of the feathers in her hair started fluffing up under Zack's palm. Her ears even did a little flick-flop before settling back like the feathers did.]

Yeah. I won't.