[ when nazuna says bad dream, shu's heart sinks. it's not obvious though, especially since on speaker, it's probably not as easy for the phone's speakers to pick up the way his breath hitches slightly, and somehow, he's also thankful for the fact that nazuna can't see the way his entire body tenses up, before he forces himself to relax.
god, what has he done? ]
You're stuttering. [ it's a gentle reminder, or rather, it's meant to be one. it's also a distraction. ] Breathe. It's okay.
[ it's the same kind of encouragement that he gives his younger dancers when they're dealing with stage fright - it's easy enough to reuse it here.
nazuna sniffles, and he has to resist the urge to hang up, pretend that this conversation never happened lest the worst comes to pass and it's the same dream that they both shared, and against his better judgment, even though there are probably a million other things that they could talk about, nazuna said so himself, but: ]
Do you want to talk about it?
[ the dream. it's an opening, left for nazuna to take, if he wants to, and there's a part of him that hopes that it's a different dream that nazuna is referring to, desperately wanting for nazuna to prove him wrong. ]
no subject
god, what has he done? ]
You're stuttering. [ it's a gentle reminder, or rather, it's meant to be one. it's also a distraction. ] Breathe. It's okay.
[ it's the same kind of encouragement that he gives his younger dancers when they're dealing with stage fright - it's easy enough to reuse it here.
nazuna sniffles, and he has to resist the urge to hang up, pretend that this conversation never happened lest the worst comes to pass and it's the same dream that they both shared, and against his better judgment, even though there are probably a million other things that they could talk about, nazuna said so himself, but: ]
Do you want to talk about it?
[ the dream. it's an opening, left for nazuna to take, if he wants to, and there's a part of him that hopes that it's a different dream that nazuna is referring to, desperately wanting for nazuna to prove him wrong. ]