psl || how did this slowburn happen

[coastal]

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[unfriendliest]

[ no promises

but he doesn’t tease her for the hesitation at least, so there’s that. and when she presses her lips against his, he’ll kiss her back briefly until lili pulls away ]

...You always turn so red.

[ he’s MEAN ]

[coastal]

[he is SO mean

because it just makes it worse]

Don’t point it out! I’ll hit you!

[unfriendliest]

[ this time he does laugh, quiet enough that lili may miss it if she's not paying attention

she's funny ]

[coastal]

[on the one hand, she absolutely plans on following through with her threat to hit him

on the other, she has not yet mastered the art of being able to stay completely mad when he laughs

her compromise is to grab the nearest pillow and smack him with it]

What's so funny anyway....!

[unfriendliest]

[ he’ll allow her to hit him it’s fine ]

You get embarrassed so easily. I don’t understand why.

[coastal]

[sdfklj he wasn't supposed to actually answer

but she hugs the pillow closer to her then, as if it's a shield]

You don't get embarrassed at all... That's hard for me to understand too!

[unfriendliest]

[ he shrugs, eyeing the way she holds the pillow. what's she expect him to do, exactly? ]

Probably because I'm not human.

[ it's not like he knows what to be embarrassed about ]

[coastal]

[it's a shield now - and easier for her to hide her face if she gets embarrassed again. which might also be sooner than expected]

Right...

Well, it's not that weird to be embarrassed about this kind of thing.

[she does get more flustered than most]

I don't know how Kaoru managed to talk about it all so calmly...

[unfriendliest]

He acts like he’s an expert. Do you get embarrassed by things you know that well?

[ please don’t call kaoru the expert ]

[coastal]

Please don't call him an expert when he's just lewd and shameless.

[unfriendliest]

[ like that matters to kara ]

He was the one who told me what it might feel like to like someone the way you do.

[ that obviously?? makes him an expert?? (no) ]

[coastal]

[ . . . . . well that makes it hard to keep talking shit, doesn't it]

... it's not like I'm ungrateful or anything....

[kaoru is what helped them get here,,,]

[unfriendliest]

I don't see the point in worrying about it, anyway. I'm not ashamed to be with you, and it's no one else's business what we do together.

[ except that she's nobility

but he still doesn't know how exactly that works in this world, if it's much different from his own ]

[coastal]

[that sure is a problem for future lili

because current lili is just going to laugh briefly at that - ]

If you were ashamed to be with me, we'd probably be having a very different conversation....

... anyway most people get embarrassed and Kaoru is an oddity. I'm not ashamed to be with you or anything, it's just...

[ . . . hrrrrmph]

You know emotions are difficult...

[unfriendliest]

Yeah, but I never reacted like that.

[ except when he was cursed but he doesn't actually know he blushed anyway? god i hate swords ]

I'm glad the saniwa let me choose where to go, though.

[ he looks down as he tries to find the words ]

I've... missed seeing you.

[coastal]

[sldkjff swords are fucking dumb but

that actually manages to get her to be embarrassed again and she's really glad? for the pillow? all of a sudden? because she automatically brings it closer to her, hiding the bottom half of her face because she's sure that she would be smiling pretty stupidly from that??

kill her




she tries to respond but it's uhhh muffled from the pillow]

[unfriendliest]

I can't hear you when you hide your face like that.

[coastal]

[hrm

she lowers the pillow into her lap but also trades it for not being able to meet his eyes anymore]

... I've missed you, too.

[unfriendliest]

[ his expression turns thoughtful, gaze lingering on their joined hands ]

How long has it been for you?

[coastal]

[ . . . . . that's a question.

and she pauses.]

Since the village? A few weeks...?

[she misses yona like days after she's gone

she doesn't think that this is weird]

[unfriendliest]

[ ...ah. kara knew it couldn't have been that long, but he also hadn't quite expected it to be such a short time, either ]

It was a few hundred years for us.

[coastal]

[ . . . . . . ]

It's been a few hundred years since you've seen me and you only just now brought it up?

[unfriendliest]

Does it matter, now that the war's over? I still messaged you when I could.

[coastal]

While I understand and appreciate that -

Maybe consider that this is a little more important than you might think!! A few hundred years?! Not even just a hundred?! Multiple hundred years?!

[HE'S EXTRA OLD NOW]

[unfriendliest]

A war with people who can alter timelines isn't going to end in a few weeks.