Sometimes that is worse. Losing what may have been, and living with its ghost.
[ The redhead doesn't enjoy physical contact, as a point of pride.
For someone to lay hand upon his divine body was tantamount to a cardinal sin. Yet, there are subtle exceptions that can readily be found by attentive souls; if Set initiates the contact ( or can be lead to initiate it, by guile or request ), he is far more inclined to warm up to whatever comes of it. The point being, that as Sampo noses along his neck, he doesn't wallop the snake-y businessman for it. Instead, he croons some animal noise — unfathomable to most, save for his immediate kin. ]
You are definitely not a bird, Sampo. You are a wonderful, sly thing that need not twist himself into knots to become anything else in the pursuit of acceptance. Not love, not friendship, not anything that requires you to change to be worth its receipt.
[ Lightly, he tips his cheek against the side of Sampo's head, nudging at it in that same animal-strange way. ]
Is that what pains you most? Did you want to be seen?
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[ The redhead doesn't enjoy physical contact, as a point of pride.
For someone to lay hand upon his divine body was tantamount to a cardinal sin. Yet, there are subtle exceptions that can readily be found by attentive souls; if Set initiates the contact ( or can be lead to initiate it, by guile or request ), he is far more inclined to warm up to whatever comes of it. The point being, that as Sampo noses along his neck, he doesn't wallop the snake-y businessman for it. Instead, he croons some animal noise — unfathomable to most, save for his immediate kin. ]
You are definitely not a bird, Sampo. You are a wonderful, sly thing that need not twist himself into knots to become anything else in the pursuit of acceptance. Not love, not friendship, not anything that requires you to change to be worth its receipt.
[ Lightly, he tips his cheek against the side of Sampo's head, nudging at it in that same animal-strange way. ]
Is that what pains you most? Did you want to be seen?