( the suddenly erected mental barriers throw her for a loop. clarke's blinking behind the obscuring fabric of her veil, visibly taken aback for a few moments. it's like having a door slammed in her face and barricaded from the other side, and the force of the hinges have her finally dropping her hand from asuka's shoulder, back down to her lap for gloved fingers to twist and pull at each other. but despite the physical retreat, clarke's there. pressed against that door with good intentions and that shameful type of determination that meant if she fell on her face, she'd fall hard. this isn't the first time she's been locked out of a fortress; she'd found her own way in last time, and brought down a mountain. )
(I know you don't.)
( assumptions spoken slowly, with a tired sort of conviction. but need and deserve were two very different things. there's a weary sort of half smile, the impression forced and faint. she's suddenly very sad, and the exhaustion of the action packed day and a half find ways to worm into her bones. the party of play goers around them has broken off to chatter excitedly about the pilgrimage, and clarke's mind drifts briefly towards a bed and lexa, but there's no move to stand and excuse herself. maybe they were both reeling from ghosts, and one of them just hid it better. )
(Either way. I'm offering.)
( is this a threat of caring? a promise? maybe a little bit of both. )
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( I know you don't. )
( assumptions spoken slowly, with a tired sort of conviction. but need and deserve were two very different things. there's a weary sort of half smile, the impression forced and faint. she's suddenly very sad, and the exhaustion of the action packed day and a half find ways to worm into her bones. the party of play goers around them has broken off to chatter excitedly about the pilgrimage, and clarke's mind drifts briefly towards a bed and lexa, but there's no move to stand and excuse herself. maybe they were both reeling from ghosts, and one of them just hid it better. )
( Either way. I'm offering. )
( is this a threat of caring? a promise? maybe a little bit of both. )