Hmm. How did I know you were going to say something like that? You're getting so predictable, Soundypoo.
[ An improvement! Totally.
But she means it well. She saves all of her dumbest nicknames for those she cares about the most. Nicknames are their own kind of affection. A sign that someone's name is so buried deep into her mind, just the one isn't enough. She has to have more than one way to show how much having that gift of a connection means to her.
Just as her heart had when they first did this, something that feels like millennia ago, it's beating wildly, especially whenever she imagines what he must be hearing. Is it too much? Too loud? But seeing him this way, quiet and content...gradually, it slows. She can allow herself to feel something like peace with him there. Loneliness wouldn't dare try to sneak in.
As one arm cradles him, she brushes through his hair with the other, petting him like he's been doing to her. Maybe there's something to it, all this petting. ]
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[ An improvement! Totally.
But she means it well. She saves all of her dumbest nicknames for those she cares about the most. Nicknames are their own kind of affection. A sign that someone's name is so buried deep into her mind, just the one isn't enough. She has to have more than one way to show how much having that gift of a connection means to her.
Just as her heart had when they first did this, something that feels like millennia ago, it's beating wildly, especially whenever she imagines what he must be hearing. Is it too much? Too loud? But seeing him this way, quiet and content...gradually, it slows. She can allow herself to feel something like peace with him there. Loneliness wouldn't dare try to sneak in.
As one arm cradles him, she brushes through his hair with the other, petting him like he's been doing to her. Maybe there's something to it, all this petting. ]
What do you like about human heartbeats...?
[ About hers, she's really asking. ]