[when leon starts to relax, it's easy for stahn to notice just from their close proximity. and it's fine, because when leon speaks and states that he's fine...
he believes it.
he doesn't have any reason to believe that leon would lie to him or try to assure him that he was okay when he's not. if he really wasn't okay with things, he would tense more, or be in refusal to comply.
si instead, stahn just remains as he is, with arms gently hugging leon to him. after a moment, he'll dip his head to rest his chin on leon's shoulder.]
We can clean up in a bit. [since they may as well wash up properly if they're here, right? but stahn breathes out quietly, gaze hooded and watching the small ripples that form in the water. he can see more, of course, but it's not entirely his focus.] I want to stay like this a little longer.
[embracing leon so warmly, so intimately—there's something about it that sets his heart at ease while filling him with so much warmth. there's... so much love, enough that he doesn't know how to contain it all, and it's just spilling into his words and general sentiment right now.]
no subject
he believes it.
he doesn't have any reason to believe that leon would lie to him or try to assure him that he was okay when he's not. if he really wasn't okay with things, he would tense more, or be in refusal to comply.
si instead, stahn just remains as he is, with arms gently hugging leon to him. after a moment, he'll dip his head to rest his chin on leon's shoulder.]
We can clean up in a bit. [since they may as well wash up properly if they're here, right? but stahn breathes out quietly, gaze hooded and watching the small ripples that form in the water. he can see more, of course, but it's not entirely his focus.] I want to stay like this a little longer.
[embracing leon so warmly, so intimately—there's something about it that sets his heart at ease while filling him with so much warmth. there's... so much love, enough that he doesn't know how to contain it all, and it's just spilling into his words and general sentiment right now.]