[ Blinking through half lidded eyes as her phone's screen harshly brightens in the dark, Setsura pauses for the swell in her chest at that first line of text. She doesn't immediately realize the smile tugging at the corners of her mouth, how the whole of her expression fondly softens. There's a sleepy satisfaction there, a quiet pride, even, that's tempered by something else, something deep and dear that plays her heart beats in her ears with bass boost. It takes will not to turn the dial back for so many decades of practiced restraint, but she's never suffered a shortage of that stuff and she's not about to start now that they've started in the face of this largely uncharted territory between them.
It still surprises her, though, how a single phrase from him can so easily create a break in the walls they're working to deconstruct. Sometimes, he leaves holes where they were moving bricks and most times, well, she can't really complain. Wouldn't dream of it for all it makes her want to take his face in her hands and put her lips to his. For now, she settles for a careful shift in her positioning in claiming his side of the bed as her own for the moment. It's only after she's certain she's covered as much of his side of the bed as she can that she blindly, knowingly sinks her fingers into the keys again, that smile of hers not quite having faded just yet. ]
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It still surprises her, though, how a single phrase from him can so easily create a break in the walls they're working to deconstruct. Sometimes, he leaves holes where they were moving bricks and most times, well, she can't really complain. Wouldn't dream of it for all it makes her want to take his face in her hands and put her lips to his. For now, she settles for a careful shift in her positioning in claiming his side of the bed as her own for the moment. It's only after she's certain she's covered as much of his side of the bed as she can that she blindly, knowingly sinks her fingers into the keys again, that smile of hers not quite having faded just yet. ]
Leave it to me.