[ Ah. She tenses up again, fingers tightening around the bruise at her wrist but that bone-deep animal fear doesn't show itself in her eyes this time. She's on edge, but there's something that looks a little like understanding on her face that softens the worst of it.
He's having fun with this, isn't he? Poking and prodding at her to get a response, like a little kid pulling pigtails. It's not exactly nice, but Ai knows how to handle someone trying to get a rise out of her much better than she does someone really trying to terrorise her.
A little breath flutters out of her, like she'd been holding it. Maybe it's relief. But what she does know is that hearing someone use her name, even someone like Oberon, makes her feel just a little more like herself. ]
It's not like you really think of me as a Master in the first place, right? So it's easier this way. You don't have to pretend.
[ Not that he ever really stops pretending. Maybe not even when he's like this. ]
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He's having fun with this, isn't he? Poking and prodding at her to get a response, like a little kid pulling pigtails. It's not exactly nice, but Ai knows how to handle someone trying to get a rise out of her much better than she does someone really trying to terrorise her.
A little breath flutters out of her, like she'd been holding it. Maybe it's relief. But what she does know is that hearing someone use her name, even someone like Oberon, makes her feel just a little more like herself. ]
It's not like you really think of me as a Master in the first place, right? So it's easier this way. You don't have to pretend.
[ Not that he ever really stops pretending. Maybe not even when he's like this. ]
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Ah, good, so you do get it. I guess you're not as much of a handful as I thought.
[ He picks up the cream pan that he had tossed aside and roughly bites into it, practically tearing a chunk of it off as he loudly chews. ]
Now go on, then. Leave me alone. I'm sure you'd rather be in the company of anyone else now, after all.