[He would have been fine not hearing them say it for quite awhile, he's pretty sure. After holding it all in for as long as he did, having permission to just say he loves them is so freeing. Like he's just that little bit closer to finally being his whole self around them, with less and less to hide. He'll be coasting on that particular high for weeks. Months, even. Decades, probably!
So excuse him for holding back the desire to literally leap for joy when Siffrin not only reassures him, but gives those words right back to him.
(His heels do kinda lift off the floor a little bit. Please don't tell him. He'll be so embarrassed.)]
Okay! If you're sure.
[He's not really second guessing them so much as he's second guessing his own ears. He heard it, right? Siffrin said it back? Better rewind the memory in his head a few more times just to make sure! He rolls the way they said it back to him over in his mind, feeling out the syllables, noting the way those words sound ever so slightly different in their own accent. The look on his face, flustered but not at all discontent. They really are the cutest. Which reminds him...]
I'll try not to be as overwhelming about it as I was back atop the House.
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So excuse him for holding back the desire to literally leap for joy when Siffrin not only reassures him, but gives those words right back to him.
(His heels do kinda lift off the floor a little bit. Please don't tell him. He'll be so embarrassed.)]
Okay! If you're sure.
[He's not really second guessing them so much as he's second guessing his own ears. He heard it, right? Siffrin said it back? Better rewind the memory in his head a few more times just to make sure! He rolls the way they said it back to him over in his mind, feeling out the syllables, noting the way those words sound ever so slightly different in their own accent. The look on his face, flustered but not at all discontent. They really are the cutest. Which reminds him...]
I'll try not to be as overwhelming about it as I was back atop the House.