[He begins, equally slowly, as he shifts the angle he's sitting at and brings his hands up to hold Ryn's face on either side, droplets of water cascading off his hands and in trails back down his wrists as he pulls them free of the onsen's surface.]
I shy away from making promises to you if I'm unsure I can keep them, because a broken promise would hurt you more than any relief you took from my making it. And sometimes I worry that what you want is...
[He goes quiet; ultimately, he proves unwilling to finish that sentence at all.]
Let me ask this instead, then. Do you like the feelings you have for me? Does it please you to have them, do I...does feeling what you feel for me make you happy?
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[He begins, equally slowly, as he shifts the angle he's sitting at and brings his hands up to hold Ryn's face on either side, droplets of water cascading off his hands and in trails back down his wrists as he pulls them free of the onsen's surface.]
I shy away from making promises to you if I'm unsure I can keep them, because a broken promise would hurt you more than any relief you took from my making it. And sometimes I worry that what you want is...
[He goes quiet; ultimately, he proves unwilling to finish that sentence at all.]
Let me ask this instead, then. Do you like the feelings you have for me? Does it please you to have them, do I...does feeling what you feel for me make you happy?