He slides off the boulder- eyes already leaking and he's pretty sure he's like, half a second from sobbing like an idiot even if his grin is wide and crooked and the first peal of crackling laughter is rolling out of him. Too harsh, too loud to be truly joyful. Hysterical- yeah. That's the right word. Even as he's leaning in, leaning up (god he's shorter than her without the armor what the hell it's so WEIRD to be like this) and hooking his arms around her shoulders, cigarette and offered lighter forgotten.
He can't even remember losing it or leaving it behind, he'd kind of been DYING at the time and
Christ.
She's solid. She's real. And he tries to muffle his laughter and hide his tears in the cool, aqual plating of her shoulder. ]
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Stupid involuntary emotional reactions. Stupid brain doing BRAIN things.
He slides off the boulder- eyes already leaking and he's pretty sure he's like, half a second from sobbing like an idiot even if his grin is wide and crooked and the first peal of crackling laughter is rolling out of him. Too harsh, too loud to be truly joyful. Hysterical- yeah. That's the right word. Even as he's leaning in, leaning up (god he's shorter than her without the armor what the hell it's so WEIRD to be like this) and hooking his arms around her shoulders, cigarette and offered lighter forgotten.
He can't even remember losing it or leaving it behind, he'd kind of been DYING at the time and
Christ.
She's solid. She's real. And he tries to muffle his laughter and hide his tears in the cool, aqual plating of her shoulder. ]