[ They seriously are just totally allergic to the concept of saying things directly and straightforwardly, which makes it very much so for the best that they don't ever have to. With as much closeness as they have and as many tools for knowing what other people are and aren't saying, things can get noticed and stored half the time without them even noticing. Whether they ever consciously realize it perhaps doesn't even matter, in some ways.
She swallows down the noise she wants to make, thins the exchange of sensation between their minds a little at a time until it's lighter, enough to be there and pleasant but not as much of a spur towards this ending. There's a sense of loss with that, but at the same time she doesn't mind. The slower pace and the dragging it out means more time to look at him, at the strain of his muscles and the look in his eyes and the lines of his body. God, this moment should last forever. ]
see? totally reassuring instead of disappointing
She swallows down the noise she wants to make, thins the exchange of sensation between their minds a little at a time until it's lighter, enough to be there and pleasant but not as much of a spur towards this ending. There's a sense of loss with that, but at the same time she doesn't mind. The slower pace and the dragging it out means more time to look at him, at the strain of his muscles and the look in his eyes and the lines of his body. God, this moment should last forever. ]