OPEN POST ▪ PIC PROMPTS ✔ ▪ BODY HEAT/SNOWED IN ✔ ▪
HURT/COMFORT ✔ ▪ WORD ASSOCIATION ✔ ▪ SMUT ✔ ▪
TEXTING ✔ ▪
RANDOM STARTERS ✔ ▪
BOOK AND SHOW UNIVERSES ✔
[ Of course, she's looking. While she recalls every inch of his face, she wants to ensure she doesn't misremember this moment. He's handsome; it's not a new thought to her, although it always manages to knock her off her feet.
Glancing over her shoulder at the ship, she considers accepting his offer before determining that the crew have a decent handle on it for now. If she accepts, will he disappear? She decidedly can't risk that. She's been looking forward to seeing him since the moment she and Specht decided that they'd return to Ketterdam. If it wasn't for her desire to play it cool, she'd be bouncing on the balls of her feet to rid herself of her restless energy and adrenaline.
Turning back to him, she smiles and shakes her head. ]
I think they have it handled. But you'll walk with me? [ She furrows her brows as she regards him. ] I want to make sure I have a friendly face with me if I see anything that's new. For moral support.
[ It's all a tease. Inej may be the fiercest woman in the Barrel and Kaz may be the deadliest man in Ketterdam, but she's utterly too afraid to ask the man she likes to simply exist with her elsewhere without some sort of flimsy excuse. Her mother would enjoy this entirely too much. ]
[ The silences never feel endless or too long when it's Inej around - Kaz can stand beside her and not have to worry about the discomfort, the awkwardness, in a way he might with other people, the kind that need to have a voice in quiet. They understand each other on a level that doesn't require further explanation, and he takes that in his stride, enjoying it for what it is.
Her smile makes the sharp edges of him soften, just a little, leaning on his cane and trying not to let it show. They're still in too public a situation, and he can't risk letting his guard down too much, even if it's just the crew and her. ]
I'll walk. [ He doesn't offer his arm, even if he would like to; he turns and motions for her to start before they begin walking together. His movements aren't as bad as they have been in the past, when he's worn down from exhaustion and fighting and running, so he can keep a decent pace. ]
[ Inej is mindful of her pace. Her adrenaline spikes, and all she wants to do is flutter around hurriedly without a care, but she leaves those childish impulses for when she sees Jesper. For now, she gets to slow down. She gets to ground herself on solid land with Kaz.
She imagines he wouldn't be bored with the most mundane of stories, like how Specht had tried to trick her into singing a silly pirate song because he had a bet that she would, or how there were quiet nights where the night sky seemed endless. But what she wants to share with him is something that makes her smile, and when it had happened, she'd wanted to turn to him immediately. ]
It rained for almost two weeks straight. Everything was wet. It got to the point where I considered I hated being wet more than I hated being hot. But when it stopped raining… you wouldn't believe it, Kaz. There were dolphins in the water.
[ Inej smiles brightly, shaking her head incredulously. She gazes forward as though she can see the dolphins leap from the waves of the stone path. ]
We were out in the middle of the True Sea and they were just there. I've never seen anything quite like it before.
[ Kaz isn't anywhere near stupid enough to imagine that this is Inej's pace, were she alone: he can read between the lines enough to know that she is trying to stay with him, adjusting as she has always done to the slow gait he can offer. It might have frustrated him once upon a time, left him annoyed and snappish, but he tries to take the gestures as they are meant from the people he cares for.
It's dangerous, but he feels as though he needs to do it, to grow, to find his own peace. Inej seems happier for it. ]
Dolphins.
[ He would raise his eyebrow, but he feels like smiling too much. ]
Was it worth the cost of being damp for days on end?
[ He would say no, of course, because the idea of being wet for more than a handful of moments makes his skin crawl. ]
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Glancing over her shoulder at the ship, she considers accepting his offer before determining that the crew have a decent handle on it for now. If she accepts, will he disappear? She decidedly can't risk that. She's been looking forward to seeing him since the moment she and Specht decided that they'd return to Ketterdam. If it wasn't for her desire to play it cool, she'd be bouncing on the balls of her feet to rid herself of her restless energy and adrenaline.
Turning back to him, she smiles and shakes her head. ]
I think they have it handled. But you'll walk with me? [ She furrows her brows as she regards him. ] I want to make sure I have a friendly face with me if I see anything that's new. For moral support.
[ It's all a tease. Inej may be the fiercest woman in the Barrel and Kaz may be the deadliest man in Ketterdam, but she's utterly too afraid to ask the man she likes to simply exist with her elsewhere without some sort of flimsy excuse. Her mother would enjoy this entirely too much. ]
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Her smile makes the sharp edges of him soften, just a little, leaning on his cane and trying not to let it show. They're still in too public a situation, and he can't risk letting his guard down too much, even if it's just the crew and her. ]
I'll walk. [ He doesn't offer his arm, even if he would like to; he turns and motions for her to start before they begin walking together. His movements aren't as bad as they have been in the past, when he's worn down from exhaustion and fighting and running, so he can keep a decent pace. ]
Tell me about your travels, then.
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She imagines he wouldn't be bored with the most mundane of stories, like how Specht had tried to trick her into singing a silly pirate song because he had a bet that she would, or how there were quiet nights where the night sky seemed endless. But what she wants to share with him is something that makes her smile, and when it had happened, she'd wanted to turn to him immediately. ]
It rained for almost two weeks straight. Everything was wet. It got to the point where I considered I hated being wet more than I hated being hot. But when it stopped raining… you wouldn't believe it, Kaz. There were dolphins in the water.
[ Inej smiles brightly, shaking her head incredulously. She gazes forward as though she can see the dolphins leap from the waves of the stone path. ]
We were out in the middle of the True Sea and they were just there. I've never seen anything quite like it before.
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It's dangerous, but he feels as though he needs to do it, to grow, to find his own peace. Inej seems happier for it. ]
Dolphins.
[ He would raise his eyebrow, but he feels like smiling too much. ]
Was it worth the cost of being damp for days on end?
[ He would say no, of course, because the idea of being wet for more than a handful of moments makes his skin crawl. ]