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[Well, it's echoing back at him, so there's probably not much to be embarrassed about? (though he is embarrassed, too)]

...yeah. Okay.

[wow we are bad at this!!

anyway TO THE LOVE HOTEL!!

It's a short walk and then a short train ride. Cobalt's doing his best to contain himself (at least externally) but inside he's composed almost entirely of Want. Wants to hold Thorn's hand, wants to hold him, wants to kiss him, wants to play the game, wants to forget about the game entirely, want want want want.

His new earring still aches a little, and probably will for a while - not enough to cause discomfort, but enough to catch his attention now and then. And every time he notices it again, it comes with a bright surge of happiness and love.

This short trip feels very long, somehow!]

[The trip is very long, somehow]

[He's mostly composed on the outside, but internally, his emotions are some sort of ebb and flow between interest, and affection, and want, and something stronger, and the impulse to tamp that down and hide that away]

[But eventually, they probably get there]

[And here they are!]

I don't have a preference about which room we get. Do you?

Not especially.

[Hesitates. There is some mixture of want and anticipation and also self-consciousness, at being here where the audience can see]

...I don't want to. Go too far here, though. Okay?

[There isn't anyone else around, so he's going out on a limb, here -- Gentle, he reaches out and takes Thorn's hand, all love and reassurance and understanding.]

Of course.

I don't want to do anything you don't want to do.

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[Gratitude, and affection, and about a hundred other things all wound up together - embarrassment on top of them, that he's feeling them at all]

...thanks.

I'm enjoying just spending time with you. There's no pressure to do anything.

[He gives Thorn's hand a little reassuring squeeze, and orders a room off the board at random.]

Also, I think this place has room service, so we could just order up some snacks and chill out for a bit, if we wanted.

I wouldn't mind doing some stuff here.

Just... let's move, before too long. Okay?

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No problem. We can do anything you want.

All I want to do is make you happy.

[he leads him through the hotel to whatever room he claimed, ushers Thorn inside, and shuts the door.]

You could make yourself happy, too, you know.

[But he is genuinely touched - a little taken off-balance]

Oh? In that case, here I go.

[He pulls Thorn in and wraps him in a hug, overflowing with love and adoration]

...Thank you. So much.

[The love he gets back the other way is more stilted - like he's trying very hard to slam on the brakes and can't, quite - but it's there all the same]

For what?

For everything.

For being so patient and gentle. For being here with me. For being who you are.

...I know this may come as a shock after everything that's happened today, but I care about you more than anything. And I want to stay by your side as long as you'll have me.

[He tips his head down, again, so that his hair falls into his face - doesn't say anything at all, the words stuck somewhere in his chest]

[But he wants that, and he wants this, and how badly he wants it feels a little like panic, spiraling out of control]

[He just... holds him for a minute, gently petting his hair, warm and calm.]

...Are there any game tasks you want to try?

[Somewhat muffled by the fact that his face is still pressed into Cobalt's chest:]

...I think you're really attractive.

[He is. Very embarrassed,]

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[well that makes one of them because Cobalt is absolutely giddy with joy

He doesn't even know what to say because he may burst??? So he. just. squeezes Thorn tight and kisses the top of his head.

He's really stupidly happy. Thorn's made him very happy!! That's just the kind of day he's having, it seems!!]

[...oh no, now he's having feelings about Cobalt's feelings, and how he made Cobalt have feelings, and how Cobalt is now feeling these feelings about him having feels]

[What if he just dies, what then,]

[perish]

May I kiss you?

...what's taking you so long?

[tips Thorn's chin up and kisses him, still overloaded with joy]

[Snakes a hand up to take Cobalt by the collar so he can pull him down and kiss him more thoroughly]

[His emotions are still all over the place, almost giddy, with a backdrop feedback loop of mildly terrified by how vulnerable that makes him]

[He leans into it, kissing deeply and enthusiastically, full of love and reassurance and attraction and desire and warmth and want and--]

[Makes a soft sound into the kiss, a little overwhelmed]

[There is a part of him that wants to run like hell, but there is another part of him that tells it very loudly to shut the hell up]

[Those giddy fond feelings, all warmth and want ~~and mild terror~~, spike up a notch or ten in response to the feelings h's picking up from Cobalt]

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