[Somehow, this is news to Luca. Yes, they'd spent the night together in only the strictest of definitions, but when he'd closed his eyes, they'd been on separate sides of the bed. He didn't really remember anything from that night, beyond feeling maybe the slightest bit more comfortable than usual?
... Ah.]
Zahliya, I... apologize if I gave you the wrong idea. Or made you feel as if you were involved in something you were uncomfortable with. [For some reason, it makes his heart flutter, then immediately drop like a stone. The taste of the pie turns to ash on his tongue. The only type of intimacy he's used to is the physical kind, and even that usually verges on the mutually hateful.
Zahliya deserved better than that. But he also deserved an answer. Some kind of reassurance.]
Truth be told, anything I do with other people, like that, I mean, is... largely only physical. It's quite normal for anyone like that to leave before the morning.
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[Somehow, this is news to Luca. Yes, they'd spent the night together in only the strictest of definitions, but when he'd closed his eyes, they'd been on separate sides of the bed. He didn't really remember anything from that night, beyond feeling maybe the slightest bit more comfortable than usual?
... Ah.]
Zahliya, I... apologize if I gave you the wrong idea. Or made you feel as if you were involved in something you were uncomfortable with. [For some reason, it makes his heart flutter, then immediately drop like a stone. The taste of the pie turns to ash on his tongue. The only type of intimacy he's used to is the physical kind, and even that usually verges on the mutually hateful.
Zahliya deserved better than that. But he also deserved an answer. Some kind of reassurance.]
Truth be told, anything I do with other people, like that, I mean, is... largely only physical. It's quite normal for anyone like that to leave before the morning.
What I mean to say is... I am used to it.