[He's never been good at being on this side of anything resembling comfort. Often as he needs it himself, it's so foreign and abstract to him he can't quite conceptualize how it's meant to be applied to other people. He manages, sometimes, but in this case he's already strung so tight he almost doesn't catch the way Akira takes just a moment too long to situate himself.]
[He turns his head, angles it inward just enough to carefully press his lips to the shell of Akira's ear.] ...this is unorthodox, I apologize.
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[He turns his head, angles it inward just enough to carefully press his lips to the shell of Akira's ear.] ...this is unorthodox, I apologize.