[Even now, her reaching for his hand is a confusing spike of emotion. He's all claws and scars and calloused hands that had hurt her in the past, and she feels so much smaller. Yet at the dance... And now, she wants to comfort him again--]
You do? [His nervous tail stills and he eyes her.] I mean, I know you been alone a long time, but what I didn't know was how much was by choice.
[Pushing people away out of that same fear, or just not being able to connect to people in the first place... Maybe she understood both those things far better than he ever could.]
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You do? [His nervous tail stills and he eyes her.] I mean, I know you been alone a long time, but what I didn't know was how much was by choice.
[Pushing people away out of that same fear, or just not being able to connect to people in the first place... Maybe she understood both those things far better than he ever could.]