[His hands still for a moment, one hand brushing a lock of hair away from Sampo's face, Gepard gazing at him soberly. It's a nice face, unfortunately. He shouldn't have realized this. He didn't want to realize this.
Holding Sampo had backfired, apparently. It had made him appreciate things that he might not have paid all that much attention to if he had slipped away when he could. Probably. But how could he have left?]
You're not supposed to. [Gepard says this softly. How is he supposed to admit, "Actually, I was supposed to leave you to die?" There's no way he can say that.] There's laws forbidding humans and merfolk from interacting. If all went the way it was supposed to, you never would have known I was here.
[There's probably a few questions to be had, like why did Gepard know this beach was probably safe, why he had stuck around this long, and so on. But those don't matter, right?
Right?]
Of course, some of my kind gets curious, which is where your stories come from. And, sometimes my kind gets careless. [...okay, he can admit this much.] Like I did. But there's no point in me dragging you out of the ocean if you fell back in by accident.
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Date: 2024-09-03 08:36 pm (UTC)Holding Sampo had backfired, apparently. It had made him appreciate things that he might not have paid all that much attention to if he had slipped away when he could. Probably. But how could he have left?]
You're not supposed to. [Gepard says this softly. How is he supposed to admit, "Actually, I was supposed to leave you to die?" There's no way he can say that.] There's laws forbidding humans and merfolk from interacting. If all went the way it was supposed to, you never would have known I was here.
[There's probably a few questions to be had, like why did Gepard know this beach was probably safe, why he had stuck around this long, and so on. But those don't matter, right?
Right?]
Of course, some of my kind gets curious, which is where your stories come from. And, sometimes my kind gets careless. [...okay, he can admit this much.] Like I did. But there's no point in me dragging you out of the ocean if you fell back in by accident.