[ Astarion doesn't mean to be sour and irritable with Halsin, someone who is doing nothing more than taking care of him and offering him a kind of gentleness that he's never had before. Maybe that's why he's being so bitter, maybe that's why his aches feel so much more paramount. Kindness had been so out of reach, and now Halsin is here to offer it as if it means nothing at all.
The hold softens him, and he tries not to bare his teeth, like a cornered animal. ]
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[ Astarion doesn't mean to be sour and irritable with Halsin, someone who is doing nothing more than taking care of him and offering him a kind of gentleness that he's never had before. Maybe that's why he's being so bitter, maybe that's why his aches feel so much more paramount. Kindness had been so out of reach, and now Halsin is here to offer it as if it means nothing at all.
The hold softens him, and he tries not to bare his teeth, like a cornered animal. ]
And what if I don't want to wander?