( as reactions go—as the first reaction could have possibly gone—it's nothing she's braced for, past her most cautiously optimistic expectation of 'not horrifically'. it's much better than that, too understated to get in a fluster over but still somehow leaving her scrambling for a response—
and then entirely spared the necessity by what he does last, which she doesn't need to think to respond to at all. (that it is even more a surprising reaction to that will come back in later, pleasingly.)
she is not, to gauge by the sharpness of her personality and her features, a naturally gentle creature; she doesn't linger long in softness, approaches intimacy like she does driving in paris, which is to say without much in the way of restraint. or regard for road rules. a little; enough that the scrape of her teeth not breaking his skin must take too much care to be other than deliberate, the threat of it playful, the way she kisses him here very different to the chaste, polite thing exchanged for witnesses.
her laugh has a gurgle to it, watery— )
I'm really glad you said that, because I honestly don't know if I can hold it while I'm. Distracted. Like, very distracted.
( are you picking up what she's putting down, orm, imagine how much more startling that would have been in bed. training herself to do it in her sleep is a little different to...it's been a while since there was anyone in bed with her to worry about. )
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and then entirely spared the necessity by what he does last, which she doesn't need to think to respond to at all. (that it is even more a surprising reaction to that will come back in later, pleasingly.)
she is not, to gauge by the sharpness of her personality and her features, a naturally gentle creature; she doesn't linger long in softness, approaches intimacy like she does driving in paris, which is to say without much in the way of restraint. or regard for road rules. a little; enough that the scrape of her teeth not breaking his skin must take too much care to be other than deliberate, the threat of it playful, the way she kisses him here very different to the chaste, polite thing exchanged for witnesses.
her laugh has a gurgle to it, watery— )
I'm really glad you said that, because I honestly don't know if I can hold it while I'm. Distracted. Like, very distracted.
( are you picking up what she's putting down, orm, imagine how much more startling that would have been in bed. training herself to do it in her sleep is a little different to...it's been a while since there was anyone in bed with her to worry about. )