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Hera
.... it's fine.
It was obviously NOT fine. For one, she sent a tidal wave at him, and secondly, she wasn't meeting his eye. Had he screwed up that badly??? Surely not. It hadn't been any worse than their banter had been before. Shrugging to himself, Zeke bobbed himself into the water before rising and wading back to where she sat.
He would have to see this tattoo she cared so much about then.
... and it was pretty. But it was exactly that, pretty, girly, colourful, flowery. Somehow he had never associated those things with Amur. She was all spit promises, dragons, cow tipping and adventure. "It's nice," he nodded, sitting now beside her. "Though when you get it done for real, get them to animate it too."
One thing was for sure, Amur could not recall a day when she felt so self concious. Especially not around her friends. When Zeke sat beside her, Amur sloshed more water over her legs. She almost wanted the tattoos to disappear, but of course water made them appear so it was a bit of backwards thinking.
She was
finally able to look at him when he spoke, but thankfully they were practically on eye level and he was sitting so, his face was the easiest thing to look at. She held his gaze.
"....What's wrong with them?"
Not in that they weren't animated, but there was something in the way Zeke said what he did, in his voice that made her question the integrity of his words. They'd known each other for long enough. She looked back at her legs.
"Why would I want them animated?"