[He can feel her pulse thrumming against his fingers, and all at once he can't say a word. It would be so easy for him to snap her delicate neck, if he had the inclination to do so. And it wasn't really that long ago that he did. He held nothing but malice for her when they first met, only allowing himself to relinquish it after that garish red wall cut off any chance he might have had to kill her.
He'd expressed to her only recently that there was a pocket of resentment for her in his heart, for his Master's sake, and the ice creature had brought it up too. It wouldn't be surprising for someone like him, accustomed to dirty tactics, to take advantage of the situation and avenge one of the only people who thought he was better than the sum of his parts.
But Hakuno thinks so, too. If she didn't, she would never have allowed his hands near her neck, let alone put them around it herself. It's a way to warm up his fingers, yes, and he might be wrong, but he doesn't think she meant to make any great statement of trust by doing so. It didn't seem that deliberate. And that might be what makes him hesitate.
If he's right, if she's really not trying to prove anything, it means she doesn't think she has to.]
...Well, you can still be excited about it. It's not the snow's fault this dungeon is so shitty.
[In fact, if it were just snow, it'd make for a great place to go on a......walk.]
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[He can feel her pulse thrumming against his fingers, and all at once he can't say a word. It would be so easy for him to snap her delicate neck, if he had the inclination to do so. And it wasn't really that long ago that he did. He held nothing but malice for her when they first met, only allowing himself to relinquish it after that garish red wall cut off any chance he might have had to kill her.
He'd expressed to her only recently that there was a pocket of resentment for her in his heart, for his Master's sake, and the ice creature had brought it up too. It wouldn't be surprising for someone like him, accustomed to dirty tactics, to take advantage of the situation and avenge one of the only people who thought he was better than the sum of his parts.
But Hakuno thinks so, too. If she didn't, she would never have allowed his hands near her neck, let alone put them around it herself. It's a way to warm up his fingers, yes, and he might be wrong, but he doesn't think she meant to make any great statement of trust by doing so. It didn't seem that deliberate. And that might be what makes him hesitate.
If he's right, if she's really not trying to prove anything, it means she doesn't think she has to.]
...Well, you can still be excited about it. It's not the snow's fault this dungeon is so shitty.
[In fact, if it were just snow, it'd make for a great place to go on a......walk.]