[small victory: seeing the postural shift bring with it the slight melt - a melt that slows, but seems to have worked enough that vi can't discount it. feelings aren't exactly controllable though, not even in the most temperate of people, and that's ...definitely not jinx. trench seems to manage to find ways to unbalance even the most even-keeled of sleepers - but it's a start, and---
(uh oh)
---the solution's smart, and maybe she should have seen this one coming - the clenching of her jaw, the gleam in her eyes and now the colorshift in her hair (useful as an indicator) - that's jinx in a nutshell - from cold to hot in seconds - and she probably can't feel the scorch like vi can right now. it's enough to make her back up a pace, sucking air in through her teeth.]
Hey. H-hey! Maybe ease up on thinking about whatever's got you all hot and bothered before we end up being Sleeper soup.
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(uh oh)
---the solution's smart, and maybe she should have seen this one coming - the clenching of her jaw, the gleam in her eyes and now the colorshift in her hair (useful as an indicator) - that's jinx in a nutshell - from cold to hot in seconds - and she probably can't feel the scorch like vi can right now. it's enough to make her back up a pace, sucking air in through her teeth.]
Hey. H-hey! Maybe ease up on thinking about whatever's got you all hot and bothered before we end up being Sleeper soup.