[Jim reaches, touches the inside of Kyle's wrist in a motion that is perfectly accidental and more the product of a languid stretch across the turtle's shell than anything that could have possibly been planned for.
That said, it's not acting that he twitches away from him the second that affection smacks him in the brainpan, it's overwhelming in all the best and worst ways, like drowning, like freefall, and Jim actually has to remind himself to breathe.
Yeah, he manages, and he hopes his mental voice isn't as shaky as he knows his real one would be. Kyle's not wearing the ring, but Jim half-wishes he were just for the brief respite of momentary invisibility he could request.]
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That said, it's not acting that he twitches away from him the second that affection smacks him in the brainpan, it's overwhelming in all the best and worst ways, like drowning, like freefall, and Jim actually has to remind himself to breathe.
Yeah, he manages, and he hopes his mental voice isn't as shaky as he knows his real one would be. Kyle's not wearing the ring, but Jim half-wishes he were just for the brief respite of momentary invisibility he could request.]