[There's a little 'eep' with that, but she settles against him easily enough, wraps her arms around him and tries to relax against him.]
I know. You're right.
[A lot of it is very old history, from the attempts to marry her off to the incredibly gendered ideas (some of which, unfortunately, has stuck to Nariko, thankfully not overbearingly so), to thinking that she was irreparably frail since her father died. The whole 'I'm old and my most precious grandchild needs to be loved' routine was an oldie, Nariko had seen it enough times with her other relatives that hearing her gear up to it had been moderately infuriating.]
I still want to throw bread at her, though.
[She's simmered back down to pouting, though! Which is a good thing.]
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I know. You're right.
[A lot of it is very old history, from the attempts to marry her off to the incredibly gendered ideas (some of which, unfortunately, has stuck to Nariko, thankfully not overbearingly so), to thinking that she was irreparably frail since her father died. The whole 'I'm old and my most precious grandchild needs to be loved' routine was an oldie, Nariko had seen it enough times with her other relatives that hearing her gear up to it had been moderately infuriating.]
I still want to throw bread at her, though.
[She's simmered back down to pouting, though! Which is a good thing.]