[Blade is not expecting to be called cute. There might be a look of vague panic in that one visible red eye. Don't mind him.]
I— [blade.exe has crashed. Just. Just kill him, honestly. Thankfully Dan Heng moves onto the flowers so he doesn't have to worry about how red he must be.]
... Glad you like them.
[He'll have to thank Lapis later.
Blade tries his best to look nonchalant, even folding his arms, but his candle-flame eyes don't leave the other man as he unpacks the gift. Then he realizes something is wrong. Maybe it's the little tremble in his fingers, or the wetness of Dan Heng's eyes, but he feels like a storm must be coming.
Oh no. Did he do something wrong? Is the bracelet really that bad of a gift? Blade is about to ask because Dan Heng turns away, but then...
... Ah. Obviously something he did reminded Dan Heng of this or that, even if it isn't anything he did personally. How is that any better?]
Don't apologize.
[For some reason, hearing that kind of apology just... irks him. Like Dan Heng is apologizing for existing. That's something that Blade absolutely cannot accept.]
I didn't do any of this because I wanted something from you.
[He has his own confusing tangle of emotions.]
That means you don't have to explain, either. You don't owe me anything. [But it does beg the question of what is the point, which Blade acknowledges.] ... It's probably presumptuous to say this, but just being around you is enough for me.
[Sometimes it's even overwhelming, especially if he tries to remember more than he's been given.]
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I— [blade.exe has crashed. Just. Just kill him, honestly. Thankfully Dan Heng moves onto the flowers so he doesn't have to worry about how red he must be.]
... Glad you like them.
[He'll have to thank Lapis later.
Blade tries his best to look nonchalant, even folding his arms, but his candle-flame eyes don't leave the other man as he unpacks the gift. Then he realizes something is wrong. Maybe it's the little tremble in his fingers, or the wetness of Dan Heng's eyes, but he feels like a storm must be coming.
Oh no. Did he do something wrong? Is the bracelet really that bad of a gift? Blade is about to ask because Dan Heng turns away, but then...
... Ah. Obviously something he did reminded Dan Heng of this or that, even if it isn't anything he did personally. How is that any better?]
Don't apologize.
[For some reason, hearing that kind of apology just... irks him. Like Dan Heng is apologizing for existing. That's something that Blade absolutely cannot accept.]
I didn't do any of this because I wanted something from you.
[He has his own confusing tangle of emotions.]
That means you don't have to explain, either. You don't owe me anything. [But it does beg the question of what is the point, which Blade acknowledges.] ... It's probably presumptuous to say this, but just being around you is enough for me.
[Sometimes it's even overwhelming, especially if he tries to remember more than he's been given.]