Totoka River tie your tubes, idiot

yeah, that boy was definitely touched.
 
there was literally no one who was too good to talk to piper. she was probably too good to talk to a lot of them, but that was a different train wreck entirely. the young wildfire wasn’t even shocked that he had responded the way that he did. instead, piper peered at him with squinted eyes and a grin that was so slippery and conniving that she might have turned into a snake.
 
“but you’re talking to me now, so i guess that means you were wrong,” she remarked in a tone that suggested she was mocking him with sympathy. her tail wagged as she lifted it upward, drawing her crown up too. the pale coloration of her golden gaze was latched tightly to his dark features. she wondered what he would have to say about all that! probably nothing but she would take his silence as a clear sign of success.