All For You

She caught a glimpse of his aqua and lavender gaze as he opened an eye to look at her a moment before the grin crossed his lips. Her mismatched ears flicked back shyly as he reached out for her and pulled her into him, but she didn't try to resist him either. The way he was able to move her small frame so easily felt like a double edged sword since she had always appreciated and admired his strength and was attracted to it, but at the same time it also reminded her of how weak she still was and probably always would be. Her paws rested on his chest, the feeling of his fur familiar under her paw pads. "Well, I'm glad you're getting some rest then," she replied softly with a little smile when he told her that his patrol had been tiring. She nearly used that as an excuse to tell him that he should go back to sleep and take a nap, but as they laid there with with his forelegs wrapped around her, her eyes searching his, she had a hard time finding words to say. Half of her loved when he was like this, reveled in his affections and adored the attention he gave her, but the other half only felt conflicted and worried that it could all turn south so quickly.

She kept waiting for him to kiss her, expected him to, but instead he asked how she was enjoying the island. Even she could feel how it was just a question to deflect from other things and it felt like that's all they had been doing lately—deflecting from what was really going on. "It's nice," she replied honestly. "I've been doing some exploring, strengthening my legs." None of it was a lie, but she avoided the why behind it. She avoided telling him how she was trying to get stronger and learn how to fend for herself so she wouldn't feel so dependent on him. "Balthier..." she said softly, her ears folding back again uncertainly. "What... what are we doing? What are we?" Of course they were siblings, but that wasn't what she was asking. If their intimacy was going to continue to put more and more strain on their relationship then she didn't want to continue it, but she didn't even know why there had been an issue to begin with.

"Azzurra & Balthier"