❃ = dancing with them. {{I kno we haven't interacted yet, (&Perhaps this meme is too old now?) But I figured we can call this a soft start?}}
Symbols / NOT ACCEPTING
It was such an odd request. So sudden and quick that Black Knight hadn’t yet processed what she had even requested of him. A dance? He should have said no, but the way it sounded, the way it was phrased had snaked its way in between the crevices of his armor, chilling him to the bone.
She hadn’t asked for his hand to join her own in her cause. She hadn’t asked if he’d been guarding her tower. Hell--she never seemed to understand half of what he’d been SAYING to her.
So to leave him with such a small, innocent request. To leave him standing there, almost POWERLESS between them, anxiety flaring up, ruffling feathers underneath obsidian, making his heart throb and pound faster and faster with each quick, stuttered breath he could manage...
Was it wrong to say yes? To deny her this one thing?
Was this not but a fleeting moment where Shield Knight had broken past whatever barriers The Enchantress had made between them?
He’d never found himself so willing to raise a hand, but by the GODS was he tired of all this. Tired of talking and fighting and defending without rhyme or reason given to those who asked. It showed in his quivering hand--it showed in how slowly it seemed to take hers and grasp it tightly, as though he’d been so wound up that even touching another would be affected by his growing stress.
Reluctantly, and yet... Yet so willingly... He draws closer, a small step after another, helm weakly lifting to meet her almost empty gaze.
Words never seemed so hard to manage up until now.
“ Fine... Just this once. ”