[There's a handful of moments where he just stares, unrelated thoughts running through his mind like the fact that probably, neither of them will be human by the time they leave here, and it might not even completely be related to this place, or -- or he'll just duck his head down, pointlessly. She's shorter than him.

So it's probably easy for her to see the slow flush, soft and surprised; he'd expected... the topic itself, he'd be a fool not to after the trend this last week or so. He just hadn't expected the target. It's a really good thing she clarified to the point of no return here.]

Marisa. [he tugs momentarily at his cape, a rare fidget] I-- It's--

[The same part of him still running off on tangents marvels a little at how cleverly she approached this. There are ten thousand buts right off the bat and a good bouquet of them end at the end of camp. The rest of him is still playing catch-up.]

I didn't realize.