#Misto loving how handsome Munk looks when he really genuinely smiles has my heart all <3 <3

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Little excerpt from the just-started seventh chapter of Mute and the Maine.

It was silly, really, he felt, that he should feel bad for not having been there when Macavity had appeared at the junkyard during the Jellicle Ball. It wasn’t his fault--it wasn’t anyone’s fault--that he hadn’t been there at the time, off trying to search for the whereabouts of Old Deuteronomy, before Tugger had found Mistoffelees and they had agreed to use their song and dance to help the others see he had strength to bring back their beloved leader. 

The injuries others--especially Munkustrap, and Alonzo--had sustained though? 

They wouldn’t have happened had he been there, had he been able to protect the junkyard, the Jellicles--

Stop, he told himself. Stop that. Nothing to feel guilty over.

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Mistoffelees didn’t bother to hide how his tail went straight up in the air at that observation, sure his face was aglow now with his happiness. It seemed enough that it made even Munkustrap grin too, and Mistoffelees again was surprised by how much this softened the protector’s features. It was like his usual stress melted away to capture another moment of happiness at the corners of his eyes and his mouth. He really was handsome when he smiled, and a strikingly similar one to Tugger’s as well.