[The end of the Chimera's tail flicked just above the ground, unsettled. And that little tiny hesitance in Eren's normally calm voice didn't help settle the confusing knot in her chest.
Kaede sighed again, but her tail kept twitching.]
I suppose. [Her friends tended to become allergic to bullets. Or wanted nothing to do with her when they saw who she was underneath a smiling amnesiac's face. Or maybe she was just too generous with that label to begin with.] But I don't think that's...that's all.
[It'd be easy if it was. They could leave it at that, friends with occasional bedwarming benefits that didn't trouble her Bonded.
But as her Witch had an endlessly spiraling net of connections, things Kaede once assumed to be closed off might not have been. She nestled further into Eren's side, rather than curling away.]
Being around you is...sometimes it feels like being with my Bonded.
[Was that the best she could do? Compare things, instead of outright say them? Where was her bluntness now?]
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Kaede sighed again, but her tail kept twitching.]
I suppose. [Her friends tended to become allergic to bullets. Or wanted nothing to do with her when they saw who she was underneath a smiling amnesiac's face. Or maybe she was just too generous with that label to begin with.] But I don't think that's...that's all.
[It'd be easy if it was. They could leave it at that, friends with occasional bedwarming benefits that didn't trouble her Bonded.
But as her Witch had an endlessly spiraling net of connections, things Kaede once assumed to be closed off might not have been. She nestled further into Eren's side, rather than curling away.]
Being around you is...sometimes it feels like being with my Bonded.
[Was that the best she could do? Compare things, instead of outright say them? Where was her bluntness now?]