[ Ai doesn't even try to pretend she's not staring. They've long since passed the point of intimacy where seeing each other undressed isn't always so much of an event but something about the sight of him now makes her pause. ]
... you look... different, like this.
[ She'd thought it back when she'd seen him on the roof all those weeks ago - that without that heavy stole, he seemed smaller and less imposing. That's true here as well but what strikes her even more strongly is how... ordinary he looks. Like someone she could have passed in the street in Tokyo and not even looked twice.
Without really thinking, she lifts her hand and lays it tentatively on his back, in the middle of his shoulder blades, where it would usually be bracketed by those wings of his. ]
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... you look... different, like this.
[ She'd thought it back when she'd seen him on the roof all those weeks ago - that without that heavy stole, he seemed smaller and less imposing. That's true here as well but what strikes her even more strongly is how... ordinary he looks. Like someone she could have passed in the street in Tokyo and not even looked twice.
Without really thinking, she lifts her hand and lays it tentatively on his back, in the middle of his shoulder blades, where it would usually be bracketed by those wings of his. ]
It's not bad. ... I just wasn't expecting it.