Stone Circle Knock your stress out!

It was nice to laugh like this again. He nodded helplessly along with Krypton's words, breath still hitching as he fought back against this sudden attack of levity. It wasn't that he didn't want it, just that he couldn't thank her enough, especially when his lungs didn't want to supply air to any efforts that didn't involve laughter. Eventually, he gave himself over to it, guffaws dying down into chuckles as he finally began to regain control of his body.

You're beautiful.

The thought came to him unbidden, and in his witless state, he almost said it out loud. She'd been just as breathless as he, and it occured to Day that he hadn't seen her look happy since before, back at Silvertip. She'd seemed so out of his reach, then. Impossibly far. Now their situations were reversed, and they were laughing together, and Day remembered when he'd avoided her because those were the only word that would've come out of his mouth, if he'd tried to talk to her - you're beautiful.

Another chuckle was teased out of him, at this. Part of him began to wonder what life would be like if he'd taken that chance. If she'd responded. Krypton was already a sort of mother to his children, but now Day tried to imagine what life would be like if she'd been the one to birth them. Better? he wondered.

But Adeline, always waiting in the wings, returned to the forefront of his mind, and Day realized that things would only be more complicated. That it would always be complicated, if he ever tried to find love again.

"I do feel better - much better," he sighed, lying back in the snow. "It feels good to laugh again, even if it's at the expense of my pride." Childishly, he kicked some snow in her direction, hoping to restart the fight. He wasn't sure he was up for another spar, but some rough-housing in the snow sounded fun right about then.