open

[inkindled]

WHO: Matthias, Nikos, Salvio (tbd if Doki, Val, and Darras will get open stuff. how did I get all of these characters) + YOU
WHAT: just open stuff, man
WHEN: NOW
WHERE: various
NOTES: tiny bit of self-harm but it's so small and it gets fixed so fast

Comments

[tender]

[ The suddenness of the compliment catches her off-guard, disrupts whatever protest or compliment she'd meant to bestow. Her expression softens, smile somewhere between pleased and embarrassed. ]

I'm alright.

[ She does her best. Sometimes she isn't sure if that's enough, but the sincerity of Matthias' praise is hard to argue with. ]

You're easy to be friends with, anyway.

[ Which counts for something in the grand scheme of things, doesn't it? ]

I'm glad I met you, Matthias. You were one of the very first people in Riftwatch who said hello to me, did you know that?

[inkindled]

Yeah? I didn't know that.

[There's a warmth in him from her compliments, one that will stay with him for hours. He likes that thought: that Derrica is glad to have met him, that she thinks of him as a friend as well, that he made an impression on her enough that she remembers him from when she first arrived. If there were some way to bottle this feeling, save it for later, when it was really needed, he'd do it. Matthias settles for fixing it in his mind instead.]

And you still stuck around? Even after that?