"I know I'm scary." Someone else might have made an effort to make that sound like a joke. Not Octavia, though. She'd traded on being intimidating for years, now. "But, when I'm like that..."
Oh, she needed to find the words, now.
"Don't be scared to touch me. I don't know how to ask for -- this." Her hand left his shoulder to move down his arm, to convey the way he was holding her now. "But I do know how to tell you if I don't want it."
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"I know I'm scary." Someone else might have made an effort to make that sound like a joke. Not Octavia, though. She'd traded on being intimidating for years, now. "But, when I'm like that..."
Oh, she needed to find the words, now.
"Don't be scared to touch me. I don't know how to ask for -- this." Her hand left his shoulder to move down his arm, to convey the way he was holding her now. "But I do know how to tell you if I don't want it."