"It's all good. Do what you gotta do. I'm just going to not move."
And so Ben stands perfectly still, waiting while Cho works her magic. He can't really see the entire maneuver, but she barely grazes him and then she is standing up and triumphantly closing that little container. It's a little uncomfortable, sure, but not anything compared to the conversation they'd just had, or earlier when she had helped him with those tiny mice. Once she has the container at eye level he can get a better look at the little luminescent frog, giving off its little speck of glowing blue.
"Definitely not. Is it - just hatched, or do you think this kind just doesn't get any bigger than that?"
His voice is returning to normal, with every word the lingering aftereffects of his tears less and less audible. It is good to just have something concrete and good to focus his attention on; he can't bear thinking about himself, and how she must be perceiving him, and to what degree he is a monster, one bit more for today.
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And so Ben stands perfectly still, waiting while Cho works her magic. He can't really see the entire maneuver, but she barely grazes him and then she is standing up and triumphantly closing that little container. It's a little uncomfortable, sure, but not anything compared to the conversation they'd just had, or earlier when she had helped him with those tiny mice. Once she has the container at eye level he can get a better look at the little luminescent frog, giving off its little speck of glowing blue.
"Definitely not. Is it - just hatched, or do you think this kind just doesn't get any bigger than that?"
His voice is returning to normal, with every word the lingering aftereffects of his tears less and less audible. It is good to just have something concrete and good to focus his attention on; he can't bear thinking about himself, and how she must be perceiving him, and to what degree he is a monster, one bit more for today.