[ Familiar fingers linked through his get his own to part to be able to curl them around hers to tangle them that much further. The same goes for adjusting the ankle he has hooked through hers while a chuckle's muffled against her shoulder. ]
It's not? Maybe we're competing each other to see who can think louder then and you happen to be winning right now.
[ Something equally familiar would be joking about what's supposedly occupying them both to vault right into teasing. Like the diet they might need to put their collection of animals on after a helpful neighbor fed all of them rather generously in their absence, or whether they should really start lizard racing, or if when Nocwich opens if they could try the old arm wrestling scheme again. All things which he knows aren't on her mind and aren't really on his either but would lighten things momentarily.
Even Claude of all people finds no appeal in doing so. When he finishes that meandering path of kisses, he rests the side of his face against her shoulder with a small sigh to look out at the room around them without really seeing it. ]
Honestly, I don't even know where to start if what's on your mind is anything like what's on mine. 'Anything and everything' probably summarizes it enough when it feels like I can't settle on any one thing in particular.
[ Which - sounds a bit like any given day when his thoughts won't settle, as Hilda might be quick to point out. After a pause when there's a leathery rustle of wings from wherever Khurshid's settled himself for tonight on his rotation through rooms since their return, he finds a better answer than leaving it at just that. ]
Maybe this isn't what you're thinking about right now, but what I am is that even though there's much about all those centuries I hope doesn't happen, and that if we have to be here that long, I'm glad we were together. You and me, and all three of us, too.
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It's not? Maybe we're competing each other to see who can think louder then and you happen to be winning right now.
[ Something equally familiar would be joking about what's supposedly occupying them both to vault right into teasing. Like the diet they might need to put their collection of animals on after a helpful neighbor fed all of them rather generously in their absence, or whether they should really start lizard racing, or if when Nocwich opens if they could try the old arm wrestling scheme again. All things which he knows aren't on her mind and aren't really on his either but would lighten things momentarily.
Even Claude of all people finds no appeal in doing so. When he finishes that meandering path of kisses, he rests the side of his face against her shoulder with a small sigh to look out at the room around them without really seeing it. ]
Honestly, I don't even know where to start if what's on your mind is anything like what's on mine. 'Anything and everything' probably summarizes it enough when it feels like I can't settle on any one thing in particular.
[ Which - sounds a bit like any given day when his thoughts won't settle, as Hilda might be quick to point out. After a pause when there's a leathery rustle of wings from wherever Khurshid's settled himself for tonight on his rotation through rooms since their return, he finds a better answer than leaving it at just that. ]
Maybe this isn't what you're thinking about right now, but what I am is that even though there's much about all those centuries I hope doesn't happen, and that if we have to be here that long, I'm glad we were together. You and me, and all three of us, too.