That puts all the pieces into place, brick by damned brick. Her fingers tighten around Shin's hand with each word he says. Her heart is fragile? That sounds like so many types of bullshit she doesn't even know where to start.
At least Graeme was asshole enough to leave excuses like that off. To flatter her rather than play some sort of bullshit love angle. She never had the impression that she was anything more than a body to him, and it's some kind of fucked up when that comes as a relief in comparison to how Shin describes this whole mess. )
We're not supposed to be mature.
( Her voice almost sounds normal. Almost, but for the steel lying beneath, the tension in her jaw as she says that.
And, y'know, the fact that her hand is gripping his hard enough for her knuckles to turn white. ... Sorry about that. )
cw: their trauma is similar
That puts all the pieces into place, brick by damned brick. Her fingers tighten around Shin's hand with each word he says. Her heart is fragile? That sounds like so many types of bullshit she doesn't even know where to start.
At least Graeme was asshole enough to leave excuses like that off. To flatter her rather than play some sort of bullshit love angle. She never had the impression that she was anything more than a body to him, and it's some kind of fucked up when that comes as a relief in comparison to how Shin describes this whole mess. )
We're not supposed to be mature.
( Her voice almost sounds normal. Almost, but for the steel lying beneath, the tension in her jaw as she says that.
And, y'know, the fact that her hand is gripping his hard enough for her knuckles to turn white. ... Sorry about that. )