⋆ ⭒ ˚ . ⋆ RADIO CHECK : @sm-13s. ♡
❛ must you touch everything ? ❜ he snatches quite crudely what turns out to really just be a fancy no - contact lab thermometer, the led display lifeless even when he pushes at its button, tries to scan simon idly as example and receives no laser or infrared response. he tries again, determined, before his furrowed brow and annoyance melts into something not quite apologetic, but certainly a little more understanding.
maybe he had realised it was broken before i did. maybe he was trying to fix it, or maybe ! he was going to tinker with it, in fact maybe he was the one who broke it in the first place. i'm not so easily made trusting of the situation, especially when i've not been happy with the . . . arrangements since their rather unbudging suggestion. at least the feeling's mutual.
❛ oh. ❜ it is an awkward sound in the now tangible air, realisation of his error both fully present and equally unwilling to admit fault. ❛ my bad. as you were. ❜ his begrudging grumble is too quick and succinct to be deemed anything really sincere, and he returns to his petri dishes with a convenient amount of interest that hadn't been quite so involved just moments before the distraction. ❛ you know, my point still stands. that could've been anything you just picked up. what if it was explosive ? ❜