[What he does there, right there, that's the sort of graceful transition that you see a lot in fairy tales and feel-good stories. There's a Moment™, and it's acknowledged, and everyone knows that it happened, and then right on the cusp of it ceasing to be a Moment™ and starting to be a Thing™, he changes the subject to something safe. Something funny. Things are serious and then they're not, and it's like it's permission to just leave it alone and draw back a little and recover from the psychological stress of putting yourself out there like that.
She's said before that she always gets let down by fairy tales, because fairy tales don't exist in real life. That's two moments, now, that have appeared out of nowhere to prove her wrong in rapid succession lately, and knowing fairy tales, it's not going to surprise her in the least if and when a third inevitably comes along.
For now, though. For now, that much is enough.]
Yeah, all right.
[She makes three moves, then, in rapid succession. The first is a light sort of flinging motion that rolls off her fingertips, like she's tossing a spell back onto her hair and making it blossom bright red again. The second is a dismissive gesture, and with it the musical stylings of DMX fade away into silence.]
Let's get you caught up on pop culture, hipster boy.
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She's said before that she always gets let down by fairy tales, because fairy tales don't exist in real life. That's two moments, now, that have appeared out of nowhere to prove her wrong in rapid succession lately, and knowing fairy tales, it's not going to surprise her in the least if and when a third inevitably comes along.
For now, though. For now, that much is enough.]
Yeah, all right.
[She makes three moves, then, in rapid succession. The first is a light sort of flinging motion that rolls off her fingertips, like she's tossing a spell back onto her hair and making it blossom bright red again. The second is a dismissive gesture, and with it the musical stylings of DMX fade away into silence.]
Let's get you caught up on pop culture, hipster boy.
[The third is a snap of her fingers that results in an almost fingergunning motion, and with it erupts the musical stylings of Tommy Tutone.]