Haunted Wood Purgatory

Feeling things? Clarence felt his ears press back and his eyes cast to the side. He'd known, really, that Santiago also liked Serem - it had been a source of jealousy for the young male - but he hadn't known it was going to be confirmed like... this. It wasn't even necessarily the offer that was unsettling, but rather the words - it sounded so professional and distant. 

Not to mention the words that Clarence was having a hard time deciphering. Emocional was easier, because it sounded like emotional, and he imagined fisicamente meant the opposite of that. 

"I talked to Memory once, about... love. For a mate," he began, still unable to make eye contact. Gaze trailed along the ground, part in thought, part nervous, part... something he couldn't quite name. He still skirted around the main question. "Is that what you mean?"