Her words have to soak through a defensive prickle at his chops -- that he should be pressed on like a snake under her boot, his ears rushed red. But he’s too soggy for the pressure to keep; it lets off in grades as he unmires himself to think in earnest, and is gone entirely by the time he’s boxed it down into something simple and true.
“It wasn’t fair.”
He doesn’t add that he knows humans to be greatly concerned with fairness.
He has been very concerned with it himself, lately.
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Her words have to soak through a defensive prickle at his chops -- that he should be pressed on like a snake under her boot, his ears rushed red. But he’s too soggy for the pressure to keep; it lets off in grades as he unmires himself to think in earnest, and is gone entirely by the time he’s boxed it down into something simple and true.
“It wasn’t fair.”
He doesn’t add that he knows humans to be greatly concerned with fairness.
He has been very concerned with it himself, lately.