#Just know he's going to shoehorn talking about Boram into a convo with Lexine HE'S THE WORST--

[mythvoiced]

@theimpalpable​ | “ be careful ” (Lexine to Hyun? ;W;) two word starters

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“Careful is my middle name.”

Which is the biggest load of bullshit he’s ever offered to anyone and used to kid himself into believing he hadn’t already started developing feelings for Yeong Boram way back when the mere idea of feelings had left him yearning for a peaceful way out faster, if only it could rid him of the morbid desire for a romantic future.

That dark spiral of thoughts aside, Hyun is not a careful person, not on his best days and on his worst days, luckily in a very sarcastic way, he’s usually out of it enough to not get himself into any trouble, which saves him from most accidents, unless he counts trying to cook while he’s dissociating.

That other unpleasant train of thought aside, Hyun simply doesn’t have ‘careful’ as a middle name.

He sticks his arm into a thorny bush because that’s what he felt like doing. Taking shameless advantage of his healing abilities had always been amongst his top favourite things to do, mostly because he likes taking shameless advantage of the abilities he’s naturally equipped with.

The privilege of navigating through nature with a nose much finer than that of any human, shifting into any shape that wrapped better around his skin than the one he’d woken up with, preserving a natural youth because a touch of vanity or some sense of pride in one’s own looks had never killed anyone, and of course the ability to live long enough to learn a thing or two and have centuries worth of discoveries left to uncover.

Or maybe he just woke up in a particularly good mood, who knows. One that prompted him to follow impulses into more reckless and youthful, almost, endeavours.

Or maybe this is all nonsense to mask the fact that he wants to help Lexine, nothing more, nothing less.

Offering his nose to help her find herbs had been a hefty indicator of that being the most likely reason as to why he’s crouching next to this bush, to reach the natural conclusion that he’d simply taken a liking to the herbalist doesn’t seem too outrageous.

Maybe it’s the lack of threat she exudes or how she bothers to find a way through their first interaction without sending him on his merry way, held back either by some lack of self-worth or something within her that had made her more interested in prolonging their encounter over ending it as quickly as someone else might have.

Maybe it’s the softness of her presence, the hesitation in some of her words and their delivery. Young as any human is to him, kind as not too many are, maybe Hyun simply broke the lock on his knee-jerk helpfulness and decided yes, why not?

She seems nice enough.

He’s got Boram on speed dial if he ever starts doubting her intentions and needs someone to give him a second opinion. Or an easy way out.

Or just because he likes talking to him.

That aside...

He shoves his other hand into the bush and spreads the branches apart, turns his head to glance at her over his shoulders.

“Look inside, is it in there?”