[Surprise melts to hesitation, then to exhaustion. His fingers carefully tighten against that grip.
He doesn't say anything else, if only because he looks a little lost for words for once. His eyes settle on Jing Yuan briefly, gratefully, almost apologetically, before they turn right back to the scene at hand.
He'll keep that hand in his, though, as long as Jing Yuan is willing to offer it.]
[ Solomon will find that Jing Yuan is willing to offer his hand as long as he can, no...wishes.
He may used to being the bystander, the one who observes from the outer fringes of certain matters until certain points, without getting close. And for being, of a given value, alone in this.
But...the truth of the matter is that he isn't alone. Not here. And especially not when Jing Yuan has all the affection he believes he can give to him; in little ways at times, and in some respects, those may at least mean something. The look given to him, albeit brief, is met with a warm gaze in turn, before they are to direct their mutual attention back to the proceedings, hand in hand. ]
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He doesn't say anything else, if only because he looks a little lost for words for once. His eyes settle on Jing Yuan briefly, gratefully, almost apologetically, before they turn right back to the scene at hand.
He'll keep that hand in his, though, as long as Jing Yuan is willing to offer it.]
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He may used to being the bystander, the one who observes from the outer fringes of certain matters until certain points, without getting close. And for being, of a given value, alone in this.
But...the truth of the matter is that he isn't alone. Not here. And especially not when Jing Yuan has all the affection he believes he can give to him; in little ways at times, and in some respects, those may at least mean something. The look given to him, albeit brief, is met with a warm gaze in turn, before they are to direct their mutual attention back to the proceedings, hand in hand. ]