>>6177680"I never found anyone I could say I loved," Lalli went on. "I looked, but there was nothing. Or at least, nothing ever felt important. Relevant. It was all the same tedium. And that is not how I should look at someone I care about. Someone I like shouldn't be like a chore, or a job. An obligation."
After finishing his explanation, Kiikoinen fixes his gaze on something a ways away. For a brief second you had thought there was something he had noticed with one of the stormdrain entrances you can spy from here, but it became obvious instantly.
Kiikoinen is <span class="mu-i">shirking his gaze</span> from you.
... That's...
<span class="mu-b">Stop. You need to take a moment to figure your own thoughts out.
Do you like Kiikoinen, like that?</span>
>No. He's your boss, that'd be weird. There's some power dynamic abuse that'd fall into.>He's a choice cut of meat you could gobble up but no, not husband material.>Maybe you kinda sorta want to squish him like a pillow when the nights get cold... 