[ There is something... incredibly terrifying in being summed up so. Summed up in that manner by someone who he has just met. He has no idea why that's so terrifying, just that it is so. So much so that he can't even properly appreciate how weird it is.
She might notice that there is such a flighty, such a skittish sort of way his eyes flicker between hers for a moment. Like he might bolt and run, even if he doesn't. ]
...just a small man. [ His mouth feels dry in trying to speak, and he wets his lips for a moment in a nervous sort of gesture like that might help.
But even if his eyes are wide, it's with no small amount of awe and surprise that she actually did reach to touch the edge of the pentagram on his forehead. The light sort of caress there. ]
Whatever you think I am— [ He just... It's like his brain is shutting off. He just can't. ]
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She might notice that there is such a flighty, such a skittish sort of way his eyes flicker between hers for a moment. Like he might bolt and run, even if he doesn't. ]
...just a small man. [ His mouth feels dry in trying to speak, and he wets his lips for a moment in a nervous sort of gesture like that might help.
But even if his eyes are wide, it's with no small amount of awe and surprise that she actually did reach to touch the edge of the pentagram on his forehead. The light sort of caress there. ]
Whatever you think I am— [ He just... It's like his brain is shutting off. He just can't. ]