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[He doesn't reply, too bewildered by the spike of fondness (??) of being called gege by whoever owned the number.
He'll be at one of the long tables at the back of the library, behind a veritable fort of books. Half of them are open and shredded to bits, with him folding paper cranes out of the torn pages.]
He'll be at one of the long tables at the back of the library, behind a veritable fort of books. Half of them are open and shredded to bits, with him folding paper cranes out of the torn pages.]
[Pulling back a little bit to admire all of him--]
You're so beautiful. [He leans in to kiss him, a lingering smile against his lips, openly, warmly affectionate in a way he'd never been before.] I can't believe it. Oh- give me a moment. I have a puzzle, from when I woke up, and I have the compulsion to solve it. Will you help me?
You're so beautiful. [He leans in to kiss him, a lingering smile against his lips, openly, warmly affectionate in a way he'd never been before.] I can't believe it. Oh- give me a moment. I have a puzzle, from when I woke up, and I have the compulsion to solve it. Will you help me?
[He keeps Dan Heng on his lap, a possessive hand around the small of his back as he tips over some of the books to reveal a jigsaw puzzle. It's not solved, with the pieces jumbled around the base.
It's not a lot of pieces, about six or seven, but every one of them has a cartoon animal - a white lion, a chonky, familiar azure dragon, a void-eyed cat, a lamb, another, smaller purple dragon - and so on.]
I can't put them back on the base for some reason. Can you pick one of them and - put it back in?
It's not a lot of pieces, about six or seven, but every one of them has a cartoon animal - a white lion, a chonky, familiar azure dragon, a void-eyed cat, a lamb, another, smaller purple dragon - and so on.]
I can't put them back on the base for some reason. Can you pick one of them and - put it back in?
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