[ there is, almost, a moment where he backs off when she tenses. but that she starts to sink into it, heh relaxes, too, sliding his arm low around her shoulders so that he's not squishing her head into him.

but hung is quiet. thinking. hating the question. ]

... I don't want it to escalate. But I don't know. That note, it said one a week... but they doubled before we could spread that information very far.

[ haha! hate it. but he chuffs a low noise out. ]

There was. But I don't know how much it really did, in the long run. We never got to figure out why Chiemi chose Norma.