[ It’s small, but Quetzalcoatl sees it all the same. It makes her sigh, because she wishes that Silco wasn’t so… Silco. It’s not a bad thing to be afraid, she wants to say. But as she curls up on her bed, she just sighs. ]

You’re so stubborn.

[ Quetzalcoatl huffs as her own stubbornness rears its head, but the way he deflects and the clear anxiety he feels makes her back off all the same. She lets him put those walls back up, because even though this was technically kidnapping and the way he was forced to be was… somewhat crueler than she expected, that’s not her intention. Even the hand hadn’t been meant as cruelty, just the alien logic of a god at work. ]

But I won’t leave you by yourself again, okay? That’s… Well, that’s the point, basically. I didn’t think about that part of things, so I’m sorry about that.