'WHAT.'
'WHAT DID HE JUST SAY.'
'HE'S GLAD? GLAD I MEMORIZED HIS MANA MARK?'
'THAT'S... THAT'S NOT THE RESPONSE I EXPECTED. THAT'S NOT... HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO...'
Her thoughts fragmented into incoherence.
Too many emotions hitting simultaneously for rational processing. Relief and joy and disbelief and something warm that made her chest feel too small to contain it.
Her face was not perfectly neutral anymore.
"I..." she started, then stopped.
What could she even say to that?
Ren smiled. A small and gentle one just for her.
The kind of smile that suggested he understood exactly how much that admission had cost. How much courage it had taken to reveal she'd been paying attention from the very beginning.
"I noticed you too," he said softly, still moving in perfect synchronization with her steps.
Luna's heart did something acrobatic.
'He noticed me? When? How?'
