[ He's working on catching his breath again as she starts to move back down, an attempt that could be going better. It's not helping that he's tensing further and further as she moves, lifting his head to watch her because he has to because he just does and also because she told him to. That's another really good reason.
And he's all but vibrating by the time she leaves that whisper at his stomach, and it was quiet and barely there but he heard it because he doesn't have anything better to do right now than listen to her and wasn't that the point of all of this anyway. He hears it and freezes, still tensed, but that's different, what she just said and the context because she might have said it before - he honestly doesn't remember - but it means something different now, in his opinion. He's forgotten to breathe from the weight of the added meaning, and he catches her glance, eyes dark and a little wide, and still doesn't know what to do with it. Right now he's just glad she waited to say it until he couldn't talk, because he definitely would have said something.
Being wrapped up in that means that means that when she does take him back in, he suddenly realizes he hasn't been breathing, sucks in a big breath through his nose to make up for it, blinking and refocusing on her. He's paying attention, honest. Just a little sidetracked, but he won't be again. ]
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And he's all but vibrating by the time she leaves that whisper at his stomach, and it was quiet and barely there but he heard it because he doesn't have anything better to do right now than listen to her and wasn't that the point of all of this anyway. He hears it and freezes, still tensed, but that's different, what she just said and the context because she might have said it before - he honestly doesn't remember - but it means something different now, in his opinion. He's forgotten to breathe from the weight of the added meaning, and he catches her glance, eyes dark and a little wide, and still doesn't know what to do with it. Right now he's just glad she waited to say it until he couldn't talk, because he definitely would have said something.
Being wrapped up in that means that means that when she does take him back in, he suddenly realizes he hasn't been breathing, sucks in a big breath through his nose to make up for it, blinking and refocusing on her. He's paying attention, honest. Just a little sidetracked, but he won't be again. ]