They sounded nice, and it was just a feeling, and with the way the other people there were talking...
[Though one of the others did run away as soon as Owen spoke up, and he's not sure what to make of that beyond it just adding to the twisting feeling in his gut. Otegine holding out his hands does ease the feeling somewhat, and after another moment of hesitating he reaches out to take them.]
...
[He can't keep asking if Otegine will be angry at him, so he swallows that down to instead ask something else.]
What if it was someone else...? I don't want to be with anyone else right now...
[They're all strangers, and none of them look like people he would feel safe with - which is perhaps a quick and rude judgement to make, but they don't feel the same as the people he knew from that big manor...]
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[Though one of the others did run away as soon as Owen spoke up, and he's not sure what to make of that beyond it just adding to the twisting feeling in his gut. Otegine holding out his hands does ease the feeling somewhat, and after another moment of hesitating he reaches out to take them.]
...
[He can't keep asking if Otegine will be angry at him, so he swallows that down to instead ask something else.]
What if it was someone else...? I don't want to be with anyone else right now...
[They're all strangers, and none of them look like people he would feel safe with - which is perhaps a quick and rude judgement to make, but they don't feel the same as the people he knew from that big manor...]