#hmmmm those first few paragraphs seem like a weird and roundabout way for Patrick to say he'll protect Suki with his life OH WELL-

[mythvoiced]

“oh, good, you’re here! hold this.” ( for patrick :3 )

@kamipyre | more random dialogue prompts

One of Patrick's greatest sins is how small people still are to him - and how stupidly large they can get when he enlarges them in his own mind.

Even in spite of his own physical humanity, the way he bruises just as easy as regular humans would, if not more due to those over-sensitive patches of skin that don't even look like chains anymore, he always looks at them as fragile critters.

Or terrible monsters, but it's easier to stomach his own fragility if he pretends everyone around him is just a little softer than him.

Maybe that's why his hand floats mid-air without second thought, ice-ashen eyes staring at the equally pale object in his hands as if he couldn't quite figure out what its purpose could ever possibly be.

Or why he looks like he's somehow stuck and interrupted in whatever it is he was going to say. Skipping over greetings and over all the ways Patrick could have justified his presence as both appreciative of her company but certainly not overtly interested to make sure she doesn't get used to him, well...

The best way to catch both a predator and a prey is to surprise them.

Or maybe it's none of that. Maybe he's just very very disturbed that he'd held his hand out in reflex, responding in knee-jerk rather than meticulously crafted caution and adequacy.

Well.

Maybe humans aren't fragile. Maybe he just needs an excuse to justify his indulging her before he realizes he is.

He stifles the panic in his throat and twists his hand around the object in his palm, holding it up with thumb and forefinger. "Are you sure you should be handing a key to a civilian?" both a warranted and a genuine question. "What if I run away and figure out what lock it belongs to?"