[ [ I’ve had this little thing stuck in my head for the last week. And it’s basically a small and silly things with your summoner having small body mods that makes a nervous Eir curious about them. So I did this quick little thing. Hope you like it ^^” ] ]
She must have thought you hadn’t noticed her leering at you. Her ever so observant yet also always anxious eyes...just staring at you. She was looking for something right? You tried to steady your eyes on the many tomes out on the large table before you. A flip of a page. Words on the goings on. How you and the other hereos would move forward with dealing with the ever growing agitated Fafnir.
Agitated was understatement.
Your body shifted so that you stood straight up, giving yourself a good stretch after being hunched over for so long. The hangers in your ears jingling a bit. You loved having ornaments within your gauged ears.
Originally when you came here they were but simple plugs. You found you were very surprised they had even traveled with you into Zenith. But they did. And you soon found that you fell in love with the jewelry of this world too. And so you started collecting ornaments that could be fastened into hangers. Now while the others had some interesting and beautiful pieces of jewelry, you seemed to be the only one with the kinds that you bore; gauged ears at 9/16ths, a set of tragus piercings and your favorite of them all; a septum piercing.
You tilted your head at the pages before you, your hangers gently clanking together to make a gentle chimed noise. The way they swayed effortlessly in your ears made ones watching wonder how they did not hurt you. You glanced over to catch Eir staring contently before averting her eyes away upon catching your glimpse. You rose a brow at this. More curious as to what it was she was staring at. What was she watching?
You testingly shifted your head again. Eirs eyes shifted back again. So that WAS what she was watching. The ornaments hanging from the silver tunnels in your ears. This time, you relaxed your body and rested your knuckles on your hips. “What’s up?” You asked her, jarring her from her thoughts and surprised her.
“I’m sorry!” She started, leaning away,a hand to her chest.”I didn’t mean to stare...It was just…”There she went, with her nervous speaking. “I’ve never seen those kinds...alterations before.” Was she serious? Surely there were others with extravagant looking piercings. Well...you really hadn’t really seen anyone with them aside from yourself and maybe a slight handful with small variations. Maybe.
A hand rose and you pointed at yourself.”My piercings?” You blinked, a little taken aback but also amused. A small smile came to your lips.”They don’t hurt. Well, at least not anymore.” Eir’s eyes grew even more worried at this.
“They look like they hurt greatly...Did you have to do anything to get them?” Her hands ghosted over her nose. To this, you gave her a shake of the head. Even here, such body mods were got upon feats. Some feats. You forget sometimes what kind of world you’re in.
“Hmm...No.” You shrugged your shoulders.”It took a lot of nerve to get them.” Your fingers brushed against your stretched lobes and down the ornament that hung from it. “They did however help in aiding me taking my steps towards being...more me.” Your hand was placed to your cheek. “I think out of all of them…”Your lips pursed together.”Nah...they all hurt pretty equally, now that I think about it.” You said as you idly took one of the metal hooks from your ear. Eir already seemed to know what you were doing as she made her way over to you.
“...Are they heavy?” She pointed a gloved finger at the anchor in your hand.
“A little. But I like it.” You smiled at her as you extended your hand out, holding the anchor to her.”Here, hold it a bit.” She was eager as she closed the space between you. You forgot sometimes she was taller than you, thus making you have to look up to her bit. She was so close, you felt the blood rush to your cheeks. Her fingers gingerly picked up the ornament, her eyes growing with wonder.
“It IS heavy.”She looked at it and then to you and then to your anchorless ear.”How do you run around with this all day? And two of them?!” She was very surprised. But she looked so cute too.
“Back where I’m from I wore stuff like this all the time.” You sighed softly as you take it back, placing within the hole it came from.”I was always running with things like this in my ears. So I got use to it.” You shook your head a little to make them chime again. Eir seemed to like the noise too. It was why you did the noise in the first place.
“You always find some way to surprise me with each interaction, (Y/N)” Her voice was soft and full of awe as she set her gaze low. “Learning these small things about you is why I’m very appreciative that you allowed me to stay with you here in Askr.” You hadn’t realized it at first, but you then found your hands within hers. “I adore these moments so much. You’ve no idea. So thank you.” She brought your hands up and for a moment you thought she was to give them a gentle kiss. Your heart thumped a bit.
Instead though, she brought your hands to rest against her chest, over her heart.”Please don’t stop letting me know about these little things. I cherish them the most.” Gods, you forgot how dramatic it felt around here too. At first, you thought it so weird. But little by little, you were growing use to these customs. You were also beginning to see the importance of how they all viewed each other. Eir was right. These small and precious moments were some of the most ones that happened. Otherwise, everything was placed on the battle field. To be honest, if you could, you would stay like this forever. Even just your hand being held by her was precious enough for you. Being able to feel her heart beat. Telling you that this was all real.
You also found it kind of silly but sweet that this sort of closeness was given to you because she was concerned about your body mods. Eir could be so...precious...at times. And you loved her for that.
