[The day he turns down Cy's hand outheld to him, something will be gravely wrong.
He lays down his own over top of it, fingers threading in that comfortable pattern even as his eyes slip down to the floor, averted for the gravity of this conversation.]
Did you mean what you said? If I asked — if I wanted it only to be me.
[Disbelief and distrust are scars in him, badly healed over, so he needs to affirm this with a certainty that will feel real first.]
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He lays down his own over top of it, fingers threading in that comfortable pattern even as his eyes slip down to the floor, averted for the gravity of this conversation.]
Did you mean what you said? If I asked — if I wanted it only to be me.
[Disbelief and distrust are scars in him, badly healed over, so he needs to affirm this with a certainty that will feel real first.]