[((___jade___))>]

Thayne laughed weakly along with her, not sure if he should or not. There had been times when his inappropriately-timed laughter had earned him mild slaps and kicks. At least it was something else they had in common though.

Pausing at Atane's question, Thayne took a moment to consider it. Immediately his mind was crying out a loud and resounding "yes", but he decided that it would be best not to blurt that out. That might look weird. "Yes... I suppose so." That was an understatement. "I suppose I've thought about this day so many times in the past year that I had it in my head that it would go differently..." He said with a soft, thoughtful frown. Of course, he had, up until this point, not known how this day would go, but he had gone through a thousand scenarios, some of them better than this and some of them worse. Well, most of them worse...

"A-th-I-I didn't mean that in a bad way though..." Thayne stuttered quickly, holding up his hands in defense as his ears turned bright red again, followed by his cheeks. In his frantic correction, he almost tripped over a root, causing even more blood to rush into his face. In the times he had imagined this over the past year, this had actually been one of the situations he had imagined, though it had been even worse in the day dream.