[It's not a stillness that unsettles Chase - he has too many dead friends in this place - but he'd be blind not to notice her reticence. His hands, settled on her arms, are careful not to try to rub warmth into her skin.]
Think one day we'll be able to get to this point without making each other feel like crap first?
Sometimes I wonder what I even look like to you. [There's that quiet resignation she hears more and more from him now, even when his arms are settled around her waist and his eyes closed, head tilted to hers.] I haven't enjoyed it for a long time, Karlinka.
[He enjoys sport, but she's been playing against herself. He'll exploit people's vulnerabilities when it's necessary, with a hunting-bird's eye for picking them out. But it's not enjoyment.]
[It was meant to be tiresome. She's been trying to keep him out if not drive him away for a long time now, although this is still said whilst some small amount of relaxation ekes out of her, cold hands curling around his arms hesitantly.]
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Think one day we'll be able to get to this point without making each other feel like crap first?
or steps leading into the sea
[They wouldn't be talking at all if they were just fucking like rational adults.]
You enjoy it too much.
[She's only being half facetious with her chin digging in to his shoulder.]
or steps leading into the sea
[He enjoys sport, but she's been playing against herself. He'll exploit people's vulnerabilities when it's necessary, with a hunting-bird's eye for picking them out. But it's not enjoyment.]
It's getting tired.
or steps leading into the sea
[It was meant to be tiresome. She's been trying to keep him out if not drive him away for a long time now, although this is still said whilst some small amount of relaxation ekes out of her, cold hands curling around his arms hesitantly.]
or steps leading into the sea