You didn't have to do it, all the same. [They weren't even on speaking terms, then. Yet she'd swallowed her -- pride, embarassment, whatever it was -- and repaid a perceived debt anyway.] That honourable streak of yours... I admire it.
[It's something he'll never have, he knows that much. He drains the last of his tea and sets the cup aside. Part of him is still curious about how sensitive her equine body is to touch, and his hand travels up to her back, to the ridges of her lengthy spine. He wants her to be comfortable with this closeness, little by little. Just as he, a human with such a limited viewpoint of jinba, should make efforts to learn more of her.]
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[It's something he'll never have, he knows that much. He drains the last of his tea and sets the cup aside. Part of him is still curious about how sensitive her equine body is to touch, and his hand travels up to her back, to the ridges of her lengthy spine. He wants her to be comfortable with this closeness, little by little. Just as he, a human with such a limited viewpoint of jinba, should make efforts to learn more of her.]