unlike the summer, I'm the moon, I'll bring the sun down

oooh my god, oh my god im so sorry for taking so long; school started up again and ive just been swamped

That the hybrid was able to remain impassive through Sien’s conversational fumblings was something she was strangely grateful for. Then the hybrid chuckled lowly, and just like that, any solace Sien had felt evaporated, replaced once more by chagrin and a flicker of self-irritated longing. So bad, her mind tsked again, and were it a wholly separate entity from Sien herself, it might’ve shaken its head solemnly in affected disappointment. Oblivious to Sien’s internal turmoil, the other female seemed to have come to some sort of realization, one which made her bolder. She advanced a single step and inhaled, face alert and nose quivering. ”You are sick,” she said casually, the harshness of her words in sharp contrast with the indifference of her tone.
 
A frown swept across Sien’s countenance and she stiffened. Excuse me? she thought, almost acerbically. What was the hybrid trying to do, pick a fight? So maybe Sien’s attempts at interaction had been a little…awkward. Maybe they even deserved the laughter the nameless stranger had directed at them – but by the Creator’s grace, she’d promised to try and she was trying. Yet not only had her company seen fit to laugh at her, she’d pointedly avoided answering any of Sien’s questions, choosing instead to hurl an insult of all things. Didn’t even offer her name, she realized, with no shortage of annoyance. But... Sien had promised to do better ‘next time’, had she not? Tamping down her feelings of offense, she attempted a smile – a frostily polite one, but a smile nonetheless. ”How so?” Sien asked, and despite her best efforts, the words, bland as they were, left her throat edged with ice.