[ She could say it's a rejection, in a sense, but his answer is more like a "To be continued" than anything else. It's not anything that hurts her, at any rate, and Rion presses her palms more firmly to his back in response.
He's beautiful right now, with a gaze that dark, obviously affected but ultimately determined. And of course he'd always been attractive, but she knows more of him now, the Akira who talked her down from a fever dream, the Akira who had survived a brutal interrogation-- the Akira who had been through so much that she hadn't ever expected.
Knowing that, it's somehow made him even more endearing in her eyes and Rion breathes out slowly.
Dangerous on multiple levels, she's starting to think. ]
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He's beautiful right now, with a gaze that dark, obviously affected but ultimately determined. And of course he'd always been attractive, but she knows more of him now, the Akira who talked her down from a fever dream, the Akira who had survived a brutal interrogation-- the Akira who had been through so much that she hadn't ever expected.
Knowing that, it's somehow made him even more endearing in her eyes and Rion breathes out slowly.
Dangerous on multiple levels, she's starting to think. ]
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