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Bring your best friend too 😗

Eh... sigh...

@ask-karasu-tabito only asking u to tag along because the lady asked so nicely 😓

Bring your best friend too 😗

Eh... sigh...

@ask-karasu-tabito only asking u to tag along because the lady asked so nicely 😓

🪐 — NEIL JOSTEN.

@musecraft​  (   as tommy   )  says:  you look awful.

neil doesn’t need to look in any mirror to know that for a fact.   most of his scars might be easy to hide away under clothing,  but there is no mistaking the ones on his face a —  the pale lines left by the tip of a blade and a second degree burn scar on his cheekbone a little too obvious not to notice.  neil stifles the flare of anger rising in his chest,  but the look he settles tommy’s way is icy cold as he finishes strapping on his gear for practice.  they are the only ones still lingering in the locker room,  and that’s probably for the best.  tommy wasn’t there last spring,  doesn’t know the horrors neil and his foxes went through,  wasn’t there when they played against the ravens and won championships.  so yes,  neil is willing to give him time to adjust,  willing to wait and see if this turns into a problem or not,  before he does something about it.  as vice captain,  he is not going to use andrew’s vicious brand of assessing potential threats,  so he will have to think of something else.  if they get there.   ❛  and yet,  you’re the one staring.  stop worrying about my face and start worrying about scoring on andrew.  ❜   neil almost feels a twinge of sympathy at that,  knowing from experience how incredibly hard it is to steal points from the pint sized goalkeeper guarding their goal. 

         HE DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING BY IT  —  it’s just that tommy’s never really been good at controlling his mouth. it’s not intentional, but stuff just kinda tends to come out out. it’s rare that he thinks about it before he talks.  &  it’s just that he’d never really noticed the scars on neil’s face before, but catching a glimpse up close as they get changed into their practice clothes side by side, they’d been hard to miss. still, the harsh glare he gets thrown his way from neil is even more obvious; he’d definitely hit a nerve.  &  honestly, that wasn’t the intention. on his old exy team, they’d all cracked jokes at each other’s expense all the time. it was all in good fun; part of how they’d bonded. but this felt like tommy had touched on something that wasn’t a laughing matter. ❝ damn, dude, alright. sorry. ❞  his eyes drop to the floor, hands busying themselves with his laces. he’s not looking for a fight  —  not with the vice-captain, for sure. tommy wanted to fit in here. to feel like he was really part of this team.  &  he surely wouldn’t do that if he kept on pissing people off. so it’s probably best to just shut up, keep his head down for awhile, just focus on scoring like neil said.  but he’s no good at control,  &  the question falls right out of his mouth before he can even consider stopping it. ❝ so, how’d that happen, anyway ? ❞