[The shock is passing, but there's more feeling to follow, so much more than with her first kiss, that awkward and unwanted peck from Jin. It comes on her slowly, because it's still so hard to process, still so unexpected for anyone to care about her as a friend, much less more than that. Even as her face flushes with embarrassment that this is happening with an audience, beneath the pain in her ribs there's a growing warmth. It's like feeling the sun, only it's not her bending that's gaining strength from it.
The others are right. This isn't the place for it and they should get going, but she really doesn't want to let go of Aoi's hand. This might stop being real.]
I- I definitely cracked a few. At least.
[She doesn't look directly at Ghaleon or Otoha (and certainly not Mitellux this dragon is clearly not aboard the ship), but instead watches Aoi cautiously. She shouldn't need to move out of hand-holding range for Ghaleon to look at her.]
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The others are right. This isn't the place for it and they should get going, but she really doesn't want to let go of Aoi's hand. This might stop being real.]
I- I definitely cracked a few. At least.
[She doesn't look directly at Ghaleon or Otoha (and certainly not Mitellux this dragon is clearly not aboard the ship), but instead watches Aoi cautiously. She shouldn't need to move out of hand-holding range for Ghaleon to look at her.]