[ Ayaka cannot hear the way his chest pounds in his chest over the thunderous beating of her own heart, stronger than even the Raiden Shogun's strongest storms, it feels like. She almost misses what he says, too, as she finds those spring green eyes of his once more and realizes where he's looking...
She unable to resist the way her own gaze trails down to his lips, in turn, even as she scrambles to say something in return. ]
Me, too, I'm... I'm glad you're... alright...
[ It feels like too much and not enough all at once, and soon enough she finds herself having to cast her gaze sidelong, fixating on the way fabric of her gown and his formalwear float and mingle together in the water around them, her lips parting ever so slightly as if to make way for words that never come out. Instead, her fingers curl around soaked fabric at his back, digging slightly into his skin. The warmth of the pool, of him, and their closeness - it's all almost too much, but a cloudiness in her mind tells her it's not enough.
She finds herself looking at his lips again, eyes hooded as she starts to lean in slowly. ]
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She unable to resist the way her own gaze trails down to his lips, in turn, even as she scrambles to say something in return. ]
Me, too, I'm... I'm glad you're... alright...
[ It feels like too much and not enough all at once, and soon enough she finds herself having to cast her gaze sidelong, fixating on the way fabric of her gown and his formalwear float and mingle together in the water around them, her lips parting ever so slightly as if to make way for words that never come out. Instead, her fingers curl around soaked fabric at his back, digging slightly into his skin. The warmth of the pool, of him, and their closeness - it's all almost too much, but a cloudiness in her mind tells her it's not enough.
She finds herself looking at his lips again, eyes hooded as she starts to lean in slowly. ]