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[thinkoutsidethebox]

Captcha is the eternal enemy.

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[heirbrained]

[you're not very accommodating about my crisis here. I am incapable of responding thoughtfully to so many words right now

MAKES SOME FRUSTRATED NONCOMMITTAL NOISE FROM BEHIND HIS HANDS]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

In any case, are you really going to just sit there so pathetically? It's not as if you've even lost anything...

[heirbrained]

[he doesn't get up yet, but he abruptly uncovers his face to retort]

Plausible deniability!!

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[giggles again]

No great loss.

[heirbrained]

[making another incomprehensible frustrated noise!!1 trying to pull himself together, but that is exceedingly difficult]

It is very easy for you to take in stride...

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[she walks over and kneels down in front of him]

I'm not taking it entirely in stride... I'm very happy about it.

[heirbrained]

[well that's nice, though it's also hideously embarrassing, so it doesn't actually calm him down much]

Congratulations...

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[MORE GIGGLING]

I should be congratulating you.

[heirbrained]

For what?!

[thinkoutsidethebox]

For confronting your fear... You may be humiliated now, but now that it's revealed, from this point on you no longer need to worry about hiding it.

[heirbrained]

[...putting his head in his hands again before he can stop himself]

I do not require congratulations.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Then what do you require?

[heirbrained]

...There's nothing really to be done...

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Then what are you going to do about it?

[heirbrained]

[cry

anything other than cry

neither of those are good answers. it's not supposed to be so difficult to figure out how to get it together!!]

...Setting it aside for the moment seems to be the best idea...

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Do you need some time to recover?

[heirbrained]

I do not need time.

[time would just be NICE.]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

You've taken quite a bit of time there already.

[heirbrained]

I know that—!

[ffffffffff!!]

What do you want me to do?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Stand up and look at it again.

[heirbrained]

What's the point in looking at it again—?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

What's the point in not looking at it again? Or is it that those few seconds were truly all you can handle...

[heirbrained]

[MAKES A FRUSTRATED NOISE

but stands up to look at it again because what else is a guy gonna do. though he's stiff, crossing his arms tightly]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[watches him rather than the mirror]

[heirbrained]

[he's glaring at it, expression twitching like he still might want to collapse into embarrassment, but it's balanced out by the venomous look he's giving himself, as if he were looking down on another person entirely]