( she regrets it as soon as she's said it; she'd undone it, too, had known better than most how to, refocusing her and breathing with her, sparing gwenaëlle the awkward, stilted experience of needing to walk someone through walking her back. it isn't entirely fair. she understands better than she wants to have to admittedly that she was - is - trying to help.
it's just not how she wants to be helped. )
It doesn't mattered, I don't care -
( convincing!
more plaintive than knife-edged; ) I want someone to be kind to me.
( hadn't he wanted to? she'd refused it, but here she is now, needing kindness, won't she feel stupid again after all if that wasn't an open invitation-- )
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( she regrets it as soon as she's said it; she'd undone it, too, had known better than most how to, refocusing her and breathing with her, sparing gwenaëlle the awkward, stilted experience of needing to walk someone through walking her back. it isn't entirely fair. she understands better than she wants to have to admittedly that she was - is - trying to help.
it's just not how she wants to be helped. )
It doesn't mattered, I don't care -
( convincing!
more plaintive than knife-edged; ) I want someone to be kind to me.
( hadn't he wanted to? she'd refused it, but here she is now, needing kindness, won't she feel stupid again after all if that wasn't an open invitation-- )