( ooc: you can totally ignore it if it's too forever ago, too. )
The acceptance comes as quickly as was expected, and Sabine's smile stays, scrunching her nose a bit as she leans back and sips at more tea. It does have an interesting flavor the longer it settles, and she focuses on it. It's been such a very, very long time since she felt light, truly light, without the nagging weight, the always knowledge, that dream-joy was only that at its root: a dream, sometimes shared, but a dream nonetheless. Better than nothing but built on moonlight and spider-silk, and less than one breath could banish the house of the cards.
(And would, and did, eventually.)
But now it's not. Now she's here, and Jack is here, and K'Ron gone. And there's this. It's new and surprising, in a good way, too.
"Thank you."
She took one of the cookies, but instead of tasting it, she pointed at him with it mischievously. "You aren't so good at barter tactics and rules, are you? I got my cookie, and I didn't even have to give up what I offered as payment for it first." She pulled the cookie back and went to take a bite but paused just before she actually would have put it in her mouth:
But what if I came back to this utter cuteness, now that I'm not heartbroken? <3
The acceptance comes as quickly as was expected, and Sabine's smile stays, scrunching her nose a bit as she leans back and sips at more tea. It does have an interesting flavor the longer it settles, and she focuses on it. It's been such a very, very long time since she felt light, truly light, without the nagging weight, the always knowledge, that dream-joy was only that at its root: a dream, sometimes shared, but a dream nonetheless. Better than nothing but built on moonlight and spider-silk, and less than one breath could banish the house of the cards.
(And would, and did, eventually.)
But now it's not. Now she's here, and Jack is here, and K'Ron gone.
And there's this. It's new and surprising, in a good way, too.
"Thank you."
She took one of the cookies, but instead of tasting it, she pointed at him with it mischievously. "You aren't so good at barter tactics and rules, are you? I got my cookie, and I didn't even have to give up what I offered as payment for it first." She pulled the cookie back and went to take a bite but paused just before she actually would have put it in her mouth:
"I'm Sabine."