[The amount of obnoxious nicknames this guy would invent if he knew his real name... it can never happen....
Against better sense and reason, as they near the exit on the other side of the room—another pair of automatic doors accessed by a panel on the wall—he makes a bad decision. It's stupid, yet Cain does it anyway in defiance of several shitty facts, the most primary among them that he's here, now, starting over again. And because he's done this for far less in the past, it feels effortless. He hasn't really changed at all.
Maybe it's just talk. Flirtation on nothing, on a thread of charisma, to make Cain more amenable to teamwork and conversation and everything good, buddy-buddy, beneficial. He'll find out in the seconds it takes to step sideways and intersect Cy's path, getting a gloved fist in the front of that ugly, patterned shirt. The difference in height is both absurd and frustrating; he realizes he's never actually tried to kiss someone taller than him, because most people aren't this fucking tall unless by deliberate fault of genetic modification. He pulls Cy down to him and lands a kiss hard on his mouth.]
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Against better sense and reason, as they near the exit on the other side of the room—another pair of automatic doors accessed by a panel on the wall—he makes a bad decision. It's stupid, yet Cain does it anyway in defiance of several shitty facts, the most primary among them that he's here, now, starting over again. And because he's done this for far less in the past, it feels effortless. He hasn't really changed at all.
Maybe it's just talk. Flirtation on nothing, on a thread of charisma, to make Cain more amenable to teamwork and conversation and everything good, buddy-buddy, beneficial. He'll find out in the seconds it takes to step sideways and intersect Cy's path, getting a gloved fist in the front of that ugly, patterned shirt. The difference in height is both absurd and frustrating; he realizes he's never actually tried to kiss someone taller than him, because most people aren't this fucking tall unless by deliberate fault of genetic modification. He pulls Cy down to him and lands a kiss hard on his mouth.]