[ One more month... that doesn't seem so bad. Then she can see these solar flowers in bloom... and hopefully all of the other flowers here too.
She notices him start to reach out and looks up, surprised to find he's actually reaching out towards her. U-Um... what is he planning to do? She tenses up out of habit, her eyes wide, but doesn't actually try to stop him—then his hand settles on top of her head, slowly stroking backwards. It's over before she can really decide if... it's kind of nice... but he only does it once.
It's not even a particularly intimate gesture—she's pretty sure he just pet her like a child or dog, to comfort her—but she finds herself blushing anyway, mostly because she wasn't expecting it, and... and she doesn't even know his name! ]
O-Oh... [ Oh no, she'd forgotten what she was going to say! What should she do now... is it weird to introduce herself after that? Maybe she should talk about something else... urgh, she's just so bad at making conversation!
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She notices him start to reach out and looks up, surprised to find he's actually reaching out towards her. U-Um... what is he planning to do? She tenses up out of habit, her eyes wide, but doesn't actually try to stop him—then his hand settles on top of her head, slowly stroking backwards. It's over before she can really decide if... it's kind of nice... but he only does it once.
It's not even a particularly intimate gesture—she's pretty sure he just pet her like a child or dog, to comfort her—but she finds herself blushing anyway, mostly because she wasn't expecting it, and... and she doesn't even know his name! ]
O-Oh... [ Oh no, she'd forgotten what she was going to say! What should she do now... is it weird to introduce herself after that? Maybe she should talk about something else... urgh, she's just so bad at making conversation!
In the end, the silence grows protracted... ]