[Oh, well. She'd needed to do this anyway, and it's not as if he'll never forgive her for it.
. . . probably.
With surprising grace Rosalind's hand darts forward, her fingers slipping around the card and tugging it neatly out of his hand. She takes a step back as she does, ensuring he won't be able to snatch it back immediately, and glances down at it.]
[ ok to be fair, he's definitely not expecting her to actually reach over and pluck the card out of his hand, so he kind of... lets it happen.
when he realises what happens and sees the card in her hand, though, he's going to suddenly freeze up. ]
... Give it back.
[ he's not joking, because he's glaring at her.
because how the hell is he supposed to explain the fact that the image on the card is of him trapped behind bars? even if she can't read the Japanese characters on the top of the card, that's not the easiest thing to explain. ]
but when she offers the card back to him and he's finally holding it again (between two fingers, just because), the tension that he holds himself with definitely slips, his shoulders relaxing. ]
... It's fine. [ it should count? ] My apologies for overreacting - I don't know why, but that card is-- [ --dangerous, he wants to say, but that's. not quite true either. ] --strange. Like I'm oddly attached to it for some reason.
[ a slight pause because well. changing the topic is not the easiest thing ever. ]
If both of these items were from a past life of mine, it's not a far stretch of the imagination that they would be designed to work together?
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. . . probably.
With surprising grace Rosalind's hand darts forward, her fingers slipping around the card and tugging it neatly out of his hand. She takes a step back as she does, ensuring he won't be able to snatch it back immediately, and glances down at it.]
That's not a very detailed answer, Kaiba.
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when he realises what happens and sees the card in her hand, though, he's going to suddenly freeze up. ]
... Give it back.
[ he's not joking, because he's glaring at her.
because how the hell is he supposed to explain the fact that the image on the card is of him trapped behind bars? even if she can't read the Japanese characters on the top of the card, that's not the easiest thing to explain. ]
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I do hope that counts as stealing an item. My apologies, Kaiba.
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maybe he overreacted just a bit.
but when she offers the card back to him and he's finally holding it again (between two fingers, just because), the tension that he holds himself with definitely slips, his shoulders relaxing. ]
... It's fine. [ it should count? ] My apologies for overreacting - I don't know why, but that card is-- [ --dangerous, he wants to say, but that's. not quite true either. ] --strange. Like I'm oddly attached to it for some reason.
[ a slight pause because well. changing the topic is not the easiest thing ever. ]
If both of these items were from a past life of mine, it's not a far stretch of the imagination that they would be designed to work together?
[ just. throwing out ideas here. ]
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[After all, that might be the place to start. If they can guess at what it might mean, perhaps they can better understand how it connects to the box.]