[ Grown like him, millennia old like him, he should know that that is now how caring for another works. But for this next gesture, she doesn't need to speak.
She brings his hand up between them... and then to her, pressing his hand to just to the left of her crystal, where her heart should be. It's yet another way to tell him that she cares, this time without saying it at all. She keeps his hand there for a few moments longer. ]
...To what lengths will you help this world?
[ Now with what she's previously said, her question bears more weight. It's no just matter of touch-- it's a matter of connections, for she truly believes that touch becomes easier to initiate and to sustain when trust is involved. And that means vulnerability. That means weakness. That means letting another person in. Anyone can engage in all sorts of contact with another to help these gods, but who among them will also sacrifice their shields, masks, and walls to provide the most? ]
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She brings his hand up between them... and then to her, pressing his hand to just to the left of her crystal, where her heart should be. It's yet another way to tell him that she cares, this time without saying it at all. She keeps his hand there for a few moments longer. ]
...To what lengths will you help this world?
[ Now with what she's previously said, her question bears more weight. It's no just matter of touch-- it's a matter of connections, for she truly believes that touch becomes easier to initiate and to sustain when trust is involved. And that means vulnerability. That means weakness. That means letting another person in. Anyone can engage in all sorts of contact with another to help these gods, but who among them will also sacrifice their shields, masks, and walls to provide the most? ]