John sends a couple of little tendrils in return, gently offering, coiling and sliding soft over Yellow's.
[ I didn't say 'don't be afraid'. I'm afraid a lot of the time too. ]
That... isn't easy to say. Vulnerability isn't something he's easily shared with people. But Noel had done his work in being a Second Person. And this Yellow...
This Yellow hurt him. And hurt Noel. But doesn't... want to. That has to matter. It has to matter, because otherwise it wouldn't matter for him. And it has to.
Yellow's words hit him somewhere in his center mass, somewhere between that handshake in the mines and Arthur calling him 'undefeated'. He doesn't feel like those words are him, that they describe him. They feel like there's something around him that's too tight.
[ Yellow is a beautiful color. ] is what he finally says back to that. [ And strength isn't not being afraid. It's being afraid... and doing what you need to do anyway. ]
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[ I didn't say 'don't be afraid'. I'm afraid a lot of the time too. ]
That... isn't easy to say. Vulnerability isn't something he's easily shared with people. But Noel had done his work in being a Second Person. And this Yellow...
This Yellow hurt him. And hurt Noel. But doesn't... want to. That has to matter. It has to matter, because otherwise it wouldn't matter for him. And it has to.
Yellow's words hit him somewhere in his center mass, somewhere between that handshake in the mines and Arthur calling him 'undefeated'. He doesn't feel like those words are him, that they describe him. They feel like there's something around him that's too tight.
[ Yellow is a beautiful color. ] is what he finally says back to that. [ And strength isn't not being afraid. It's being afraid... and doing what you need to do anyway. ]