Noctisardor Bypass Relax - what you see is what you see

his rawbit ears cupped forward with amusement as she spoke, detailing what she felt to be logical. merrick nodded along, sighing once and stepping back as he appeared to relent.
then tongue caressed lips, and his cyclops expression grew jaunty. "you know, i just don't like you, i think," merrick rejoined. "you had a kid that was abandoned with you —" two if she counted nunataq, whom the boy refused to remember "— and that's how i stayed. just a forgotten kid. back when things were booming, and you weren't, i don't know," he breathed, scenting the air with a visible slowness, "alone."
of course she was not, but merrick enjoyed denying her reality, forcing her to live in his.
"and so i'll right the wrong," he finished simply, his mouth curving in a boyish smile.