I promise you, no one is more okay with that than me.
[Isabeau won't say he's never slept that well before, but it did check off a bucket list item for him! Except now, instead of having to cajole Siffrin into agreeing to it just once, he's gonna get to have late night cuddles all the time? Forever, potentially?
(He's not already thinking about forever, he's not. Stop that, self.)
He continues to brush their hair, moving at a steady pace as the tough bristles pull away broken strands and surface level tangles. Each brush comes with the gentle brace of his hand, fingers trailing through his hair in a slow chase. Could he have been done with this already? Yes. Is he indulging in some extra brushing for the sake of continuing the conversation? Also yes.]
Of course we wanna hear it. I'm so confident in that, I'd bet dating you on it.
[Siffrin still may not seem to think so, but each and every one of this little group loves him terribly. Enough to weather everything that happened over the last two days. Enough to try to join him on a journey they can't recall, to help shoulder a trauma they couldn't be there for.]
...If I had to guess, there are probably parts of it that you can't share with all of us. Is that right?
[People don't really say they're going to "dump" an experience on someone unless it was a particularly heavy one.]
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[Isabeau won't say he's never slept that well before, but it did check off a bucket list item for him! Except now, instead of having to cajole Siffrin into agreeing to it just once, he's gonna get to have late night cuddles all the time? Forever, potentially?
(He's not already thinking about forever, he's not. Stop that, self.)
He continues to brush their hair, moving at a steady pace as the tough bristles pull away broken strands and surface level tangles. Each brush comes with the gentle brace of his hand, fingers trailing through his hair in a slow chase. Could he have been done with this already? Yes. Is he indulging in some extra brushing for the sake of continuing the conversation? Also yes.]
Of course we wanna hear it. I'm so confident in that, I'd bet dating you on it.
[Siffrin still may not seem to think so, but each and every one of this little group loves him terribly. Enough to weather everything that happened over the last two days. Enough to try to join him on a journey they can't recall, to help shoulder a trauma they couldn't be there for.]
...If I had to guess, there are probably parts of it that you can't share with all of us. Is that right?
[People don't really say they're going to "dump" an experience on someone unless it was a particularly heavy one.]