[It's only awkward the first few seconds, while he settles in, before she does; afterwards, Mae finds a position that's comfortable for both of them more or less: She turns just a little, to wrap her arm around his shoulder and draw him in, especially when he thanks her for something that comes so easily to her now.
Count it all: they've pulled secrets from her without persistence, they've welcomed her into their home, Hikaru's sang her to sleep, Josh has been the prompt provider of hugs on all the occasions she'd needed them... How could she not be tender hearted over them? Over him?
It doesn't take much to get Mae on your side, but when she's there she will stay there, solid and loyal and dependable. And, beyond warm today, generous. She doesn't say you're welcome, she presses a kiss into his hair and lets out a quiet sigh through her nose, and lets her hands run up and down his back.
He doesn't have to tell her. Death is, in itself, terrible and terrifying. He doesn't need to specify or give details, for her to know whatever remnant of it there's left in his soul, it's a trauma -- a scar, not a bruise. And much like her scars, she can only do her best to smooth it over for him too.]
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Count it all: they've pulled secrets from her without persistence, they've welcomed her into their home, Hikaru's sang her to sleep, Josh has been the prompt provider of hugs on all the occasions she'd needed them... How could she not be tender hearted over them? Over him?
It doesn't take much to get Mae on your side, but when she's there she will stay there, solid and loyal and dependable. And, beyond warm today, generous. She doesn't say you're welcome, she presses a kiss into his hair and lets out a quiet sigh through her nose, and lets her hands run up and down his back.
He doesn't have to tell her. Death is, in itself, terrible and terrifying. He doesn't need to specify or give details, for her to know whatever remnant of it there's left in his soul, it's a trauma -- a scar, not a bruise. And much like her scars, she can only do her best to smooth it over for him too.]