Broken Boulder oh, give me a break already

sorry for the wait + this being terrible

He really wanted to leave, by now; Queenie was being spiky, Delight was a mess. They could honestly just deal with each other— but then she asked him to stay, and he couldn't say no. Especially if something did happen to go wrong. He assumed that was the reason she was asking him to stay, anyway; honestly, if anyone had asked him, he'd definitely have guessed his presence was doing the opposite of helping Delight. Or anything, at all. Please let me leave.
So he moved away as she asked, and waited through the three hours.
When she finally caved and asked for the leaves, he only glanced to Delight. Alarian was still entirely unwilling to get anywhere near Queenie, but he was willing to answer her question. Somewhat. Uhh, I think you'll... just know. It was actually as honest as he could get. That was what his friend had told him, and after watching it, he definitely believed it. The answer would probably piss her off, but, Alarian had already had three hours to accept the possibility of being bitten; it was cool now.