What she gets instead is all of a moment’s notice via psychometry before he’s holding her hand. Shiho freezes as she always tends to do when she’s overwhelmed like this, eyes wide for a fraction of a second before she realizes that right, this is reality and time is still ticking on by. And he’s still holding her hand, lightly like he thinks he’d be the one scaring her.
It’s a good thing he’s not a psychometer, she thinks because then he’d find out her greatest secret: that she did like human contact. Actions spoke louder than words and someone reaching out, knowing who she is and not being afraid of her was the greatest expression of trust and she’s a complete and utter sucker for it. She can feel herself blushing and looks away like that’ll help at all, fingers tightening just for a moment around his before she’s leading the way to the stairs.]
...I grew up here. My parents sent me here when I was five.
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What she gets instead is all of a moment’s notice via psychometry before he’s holding her hand. Shiho freezes as she always tends to do when she’s overwhelmed like this, eyes wide for a fraction of a second before she realizes that right, this is reality and time is still ticking on by. And he’s still holding her hand, lightly like he thinks he’d be the one scaring her.
It’s a good thing he’s not a psychometer, she thinks because then he’d find out her greatest secret: that she did like human contact. Actions spoke louder than words and someone reaching out, knowing who she is and not being afraid of her was the greatest expression of trust and she’s a complete and utter sucker for it. She can feel herself blushing and looks away like that’ll help at all, fingers tightening just for a moment around his before she’s leading the way to the stairs.]
...I grew up here. My parents sent me here when I was five.