Her name's on his lips -- he worked so hard to keep her from touching that after all, and now she's just. Gonna do it anyway. Of course he's gonna stress and worry and almost move to stop her, but... he becomes aware of the something else in the silence around them, and hesitates.
Running absent hands along his arms, a reflex gesture against the chill that's suddenly in the air, he quiets his own breaths and then falls still, trying to listen. Where is the extra sound coming from...? I hate that his detective's intuition is still enough to distract him no mater how worried he was. ]
NENE.......
Her name's on his lips -- he worked so hard to keep her from touching that after all, and now she's just. Gonna do it anyway. Of course he's gonna stress and worry and almost move to stop her, but... he becomes aware of the something else in the silence around them, and hesitates.
Running absent hands along his arms, a reflex gesture against the chill that's suddenly in the air, he quiets his own breaths and then falls still, trying to listen. Where is the extra sound coming from...? I hate that his detective's intuition is still enough to distract him no mater how worried he was. ]