[At first, at the rebuke, Kaede flinched. Her eyes squeezed shut, her ears pinned back, and the endless torrent of words stopped.
But no further correction came. The expected resentment didn't materialize. The anxious tension in Kaede's end of the Bond froze, like a startled deer. It didn't vanish, but it stopped working itself up into a frenzy, too. The Chimera's shoulders shivered, a motion she couldn't suppress.]
...I'm. [What was she supposed to say here? There was no anger in Chariot's mind, in the Bond--nothing she could struggle against and feel at all justified in. Another apology hovered at the tip of her tongue. She'd never apologized so much in her life, and now she couldn't stop making them--right when they didn't matter.
Chariot wasn't angry. She wasn't resentful. She worried, oh she worried. But the comfort of her embrace was still there, the warmth that soothed away the worries in Kaede's mind--she just had to be here. Gaze into Chariot's endless patience, and see that there really wasn't a bottom to it.]
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But no further correction came. The expected resentment didn't materialize. The anxious tension in Kaede's end of the Bond froze, like a startled deer. It didn't vanish, but it stopped working itself up into a frenzy, too. The Chimera's shoulders shivered, a motion she couldn't suppress.]
...I'm. [What was she supposed to say here? There was no anger in Chariot's mind, in the Bond--nothing she could struggle against and feel at all justified in. Another apology hovered at the tip of her tongue. She'd never apologized so much in her life, and now she couldn't stop making them--right when they didn't matter.
Chariot wasn't angry. She wasn't resentful. She worried, oh she worried. But the comfort of her embrace was still there, the warmth that soothed away the worries in Kaede's mind--she just had to be here. Gaze into Chariot's endless patience, and see that there really wasn't a bottom to it.]