[He takes his hand out of his pocket again only to return the half-hug, realising all at once how long it's been since an actual person bothered to show him any form of physical affection, and... wow, okay, somehow this whole school has an upside, maybe. Noah takes a second to process that. It's not like he wasn't planning on trying to un-sickle Clamor eventually, but it's not like he made any headway on that either...
So maybe he gets a little sad in the moment, big deal. It's just one half-hug, nothing to write home about. Not that he has a home to write to, if that weren't a metaphor, ha...]
Are you paying attention in class?
[Let's just ignore being a bit sad by changing the subject! Surely that will work!]
no subject
[He takes his hand out of his pocket again only to return the half-hug, realising all at once how long it's been since an actual person bothered to show him any form of physical affection, and... wow, okay, somehow this whole school has an upside, maybe. Noah takes a second to process that. It's not like he wasn't planning on trying to un-sickle Clamor eventually, but it's not like he made any headway on that either...
So maybe he gets a little sad in the moment, big deal. It's just one half-hug, nothing to write home about. Not that he has a home to write to, if that weren't a metaphor, ha...]
Are you paying attention in class?
[Let's just ignore being a bit sad by changing the subject! Surely that will work!]